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Assessment for Learning and Teaching in Secondary Schools
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Assessment for Learning and Teaching in Secondary Schools


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Secondary Assessment

January 2008 | 144 pages | Learning Matters
Assessment is central to teaching and learning, yet is one of the most difficult areas of professional practice. This book guides trainee secondary teachers through its complexities and provides practical strategies, exemplified by case studies. It examines issues such as diagnosing problems, sharing learning objectives, assessment as a tool for motivation, effective planning, using evidence to adapt teaching, peer and self assessment, learning through dialogue and understanding formative assessment. Targeted specifically at trainees, this text links explicitly to the new QTS Standards, and its tasks provide opportunities for reflection and for practising the range of skills involved in assessing pupils.
 
Why Assess?
 
Theoretical approaches to learning and assessment
 
Summative assessment
 
Formative assessment
 
Developing assessment strategies
 
Assessment data
 
Using assessment in the classroom
 
Valuing the student role in assessment
 
Recording assessment
 
Your future development

"The book covered, quite simply, all of the facts of assessments that trainee teachers need to know"- Senior Lecturer, Kingston University


Good addition for PGCE students to refer to as there is great confusion around AfL for students and how they can make it part of their teaching rather than an afterthought.

Miss Lorraine Smith
Department of Secondary Education, Greenwich University
July 7, 2014

Excellent summary of AfL for secondary trainees

Mr Robert Hooson
Faculty of Education, Edge Hill University
November 15, 2012

This text was part of the essential reading list I gave for a first year module called Curriculum Design on a BSc Education programme. As part of that module students consider issues around designing an appropriate curriculum and hence consideration of assessments is one key area. This text is written in a very student friendly way and hence was very good as a text for this particular module and level of students.

Dr Julie Price
School of Education, Southampton University
July 30, 2012

Fantastic read for assessment, very similar read to other QTS.

Miss Catherine Flint
Educational Foundations , Tameside College
May 3, 2012

A simple, well-written book with clear guidelines and information about how to use assessment sucessfully to help pupils achieve.

Mrs Ruth Seabrook
Education Enterprise Office, Roehampton University
April 12, 2012

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