USE QUESTIONING AND FEEDBACK TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS UNIT 2, 6.4
LITERATURE REVIEW
Harlen explains that there are two main reasons for assessing students: to help their learning and to report on what they have learned. He argues that researchers typically discuss these reasons as different purposes for assessment and “mistakenly as different kinds of assessments that are somehow opposed to one another” (Harlen, 2007b).
How can they achieve the aim?
When learners know and understand these principles, the quality of learning will improve. Sharing this information with my learners will promote ownership of the learning aims and a sense of shared responsibility between me the teacher and learner to achieve those aims. Improving learners’
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If a teacher asks learners to explain why vaccines work, then the learners have to provide this explanation in their own words. This gives the teacher feedback especially if the teacher observes the learners’ body language. Once teachers have developed their questioning technique, they will need to look at question distribution. Black P, Wiliam D.
Feedback on assessment
The Assessment for Learning model is only as good as the quality of feedback provided to learners. Successful Assessment for Learning strategies hinge on the nature of feedback, its content and the way it is received and used by learners. Many adults can still remember feedback they received from teachers numerous years later and not always for the best reasons.
Ultimately, feedback should help learners improve in a specific activity; when feedback provides correction or improvement in a piece of work, it is valued by learners and acts as an incredible motivator. Remember, teachers must genuinely demonstrate that they believe that all learners can learn and improve, but the improvements must be measured against their own previous performance, not that of others Mortimore P (ed)
Carrillo Response to Paty Orozcoregalado Connection: HI Paty! I am glad to see that you brought up our 340 class. The assessments I did during the fieldwork for that class were some of my first hands on experience with using and interpreting screeners and individual studnt assessments. Discussion: I feel like this week’s reading has been great because it has helped me to further specify the uses of the many different types of tests and assessments.
The primary purpose of observational assessment is for refining teaching and improving ther learning, according to Allen & Cowdery, 2011. In that’s exacly what you can see in this assignment of mine, I use the information
Subject area (Learning Area): Science Year level: 4 Curricular Intentions : Content Descriptor: Living things have life cycles (ACSSU072) • describing the stages of life cycles of different living things such as insects, birds, frogs and flowering plants Know Do Value • identify living things • describe life styles • recognise the different features of living and non-living things • identify the different structures of living things • identify the functions of living things • classify living things according to their structural features • identify the different parts of plants • recognise the need of living things • recognise ways living things interact with each other and with the environment • illustrate life cycle stages of living things • investigate living organisms life cycles • ask appropriate questions which can be used to make predictions • participate in the
Students learn a variety of ways and we have to adapt our teaching and lessons to ensure that all students are learning. We are educating the future, we are teaching students to become critical thinkers,
Classroom assessment and grading practices have the potential not only to measure and report learning but also to promote it. Indeed, recent research has documented the benefits of regular use of diagnostic and formative assessments as feedback for learning (Black, Harrison, Lee, Marshall, & Wiliam,
Context and Unit Description For this essay, students will be completing work from the unit titled ‘Place and liveability’, addressing all content and outcome requirements from the Australian Curriculum: 7-10 Geography. The following are examples of what students will be capable of identifying at the completion of the unit: 1) Factors that influence the decisions people make about where to live and their perceptions of the liveability of places (ACHGK043) 2) The influence of accessibility to services and facilities on the liveability of places (ACHGK044) and 3) Reflect on their learning to propose individual and collective action in response to a contemporary geographical challenge, taking account of environmental, economic and social considerations,
Liberal Arts Self-Assessment There are many benefits to achieving a Liberal Arts education. A Liberal Arts education provides the learner with a broad range of information to help guide them in a direction that create intellectual growth. Liberal Arts cover a wide range of subjects and creates a solid foundation for many other areas of study. A Liberal Arts education teaches you how to think, learn, see things as a whole, makes you a better communicator, and problem solver. A Liberal Arts education is the most important factor in creating critically thinking, well rounded interesting individuals.
Assessments are a teacher’s tool that builds a profile on student’s growth and are the “tell-tell” detectors that provide the with teacher information on a student who may need additional services in and beyond the
W-7 – PROFESSIONAL BOUNDARIES 1. I chose these competences because as a nurse it is vital to maintain professional boundaries and still be able to provide the therapeutic care without personally getting attached to patients. 2. From the article I learned that it is ok to be present with your patient, and caring about what they might be going through as you provide necessary care and support, but not to excessively worrying about a patient in your personal life/home” (p. 407) 3.
2:1 Compare the strengths and limitations of assessments of a range of assessment methods with reference to the needs of individual learners. Workplace Observations, question and answer/professional discussions, projects/assignments, portfolios, witness statements. A good assessor will always take into account their learners needs and what particular subject they are studying for prior to confirming with learner type of assessment method to be used. Workplace observations
Assessment plays an integral role in the teaching-learning cycle (DES & NCAA, 1999). This comprehensive process is a fundamental accountability measure for students and teachers in Physical Education (P.E). Ultimately, assessment in the P.E. environment should serve the purpose of enhancing and enriching the learning experience for students. It should provide them with feedback on their skill progression, motivate them to improve and contribute greatly to their overall development. It also guides the teacher, showing them both how and what the children are learning.
I incorporate this learned experience daily and learn through each success and discovered area of improvement. Addressing my students needs using a variety of assessment tools has been a beneficial practice to help guide instruction. Students have different learning styles and their strengths and weaknesses are not always apparent using the same methods of assessment. Utilizing formative, standards(goal)-based, anecdotal, observational and benchmarks has driven my instructional programs. The combination of different assessments provides me with a multi-dynamic perspective of my students allowing me to better understand their strengths, weakness and academic needs.
In a learning environment, teachers want to help students engage with what they are doing to promote deeper understanding" (Kohn, 1997c). The student-directed learning theory implies that the teacher should share the
Understanding what they are learning is how students become better
Feedback is a significant element in determination of education quality as well as in effective learning where it portrays the learning outcomes for students and the successes for the tutors. There are many aspects that concern educationists with regards to feedback but the relationship between perspectives of learning as well as teaching and feedback stands as the most important among them. Feedback should be conveyed in different modes in a learning environment but whatever mode chosen creates room for dialogue between the tutor and students. Therefore, it is only through feedback that the student engagement relationship with the feedback as well as the tutors’ perceptions of learning, teaching and assessment that such successes can be established.