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Assessment for Teaching (EDUC90409)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2017
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In this subject students will link assessment to teaching and classroom learning. Links between assessment and curriculum are examined and connected to evidence-based decision making and developmental frameworks. Students will develop an understanding of both objective and subjective assessment strategies. The importance and use of various approaches to gathering evidence, interpretation of hierarchies and developmental frameworks, and reporting will be examined and several will be practised. Both informal and formal methods of assessment will be considered. Students will develop skills in evaluating assessment and reporting. Skills in combining evidence of learning to form assessment for teaching, recording and reporting purposes will be developed.
Intended learning outcomes
Upon completion of this subject, teacher candidates will be able to:
The subject covers a range of the National Professional Standards for Teachers (for Graduate Teachers). In particular, the subject will contribute to students attaining the following standards:
1.5 Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities
2.3 Curriculum, assessment and reporting
3.1 Establish challenging learning goals
3.6 Evaluate and improve teaching programs
5.1 Assess student learning
5.2 Provide feedback to students on their learning
5.3 Make consistent and comparable judgments
5.4 Interpret student data
6.1 Identify and plan professional learning needs
6.4 Apply professional learning and improve student learning
- Practise different approaches to collecting evidence of learning and development;
- Construct assessment procedures that yield a developmental learning continuum;
- Interpret assessment data using formal interpretative frameworks;
- Locate students on the continuum;
- Identify, design and defend differentiated and focussed intervention strategies for each student;
- Link teaching and learning resources to intervention strategies;
- Monitor student development on the continuum;
- Combine development continua for overall assessments from unit or module to subject and year levels;
- Report to stakeholders about student learning and make recommendations for support and intervention.
Generic skills
On completion of this subject, teacher candidates will have the knowledge, skills and understanding to enable them to:
- Be highly-skilled teachers who demonstrate the professional capabilities to meet the individual needs of diverse learners using interventionist practice.
- Generate and analyse diverse sources of data that can effectively assess student learning and development, and inform teaching.
- Use evidence to make sound clinical judgments about the nature and implementation of teaching interventions.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the way in which theory and research informs practice.
- Effectively engage students, parents, community members, and professional colleagues to support student learning and development.
- Demonstrate a capacity for leadership and advocacy in education.
Last updated: 10 February 2024