This week’s topics
Assessment and Collaborative Goal Setting
- Formative and ipsative assessment methods
- Learner voice in target setting
- Formulating SMART targets
- Evaluating assessment validity and accessibility
- Developing Agency With Student-Led Conferences
What you will be able to do
- 3.2 Analyse the role and use of diagnostic assessment in agreeing individual learning goals.
- 3.3 Evaluate methods of assessment to agree individual learning goals with learners.
Activity
Start with this week’s video, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: analyse the role and use of diagnostic assessment in agreeing individual learning goals.
Study materials
Videos
- Developing Agency With Student-Led Conferences · YouTube · Edutopia · 4 min · for registered students
- Five Keys to Comprehensive Assessment · YouTube · Edutopia · 8 min · for registered students
- Integrated learning and assessment: Improving learning outcomes | CELS 2024 · YouTube · English with Cambridge · 34 min · for registered students
- Techniques for getting the most from every moment of learning with secondary and adult learners · YouTube · English with Cambridge · 57 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Formative assessment and self-regulated learning: seven principles of good feedback · PDF · Reading, article · for registered students
- A Critical Review of Research on Student Self-Assessment · Reading · Reading, article · for registered students
- Educational Psychology (Seifert & Sutton), ch. 11: Teacher-made assessment strategies · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 240–276 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
