Classroom Assessment for Teachers

Lena Gray has extensive experience of developing assessment policies, supporting teachers and examiners in the implementation of these, and evaluating their implementation. She was former Director of Research and Analysis at AQA, England’s largest GCSE and A-level exam board, UK.Lesley Wiseman-Orr is a research Fellow in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. Lesley is a member of the International Educational Assessment Network which brings together international research and policy experts from small nations and states to share evidence from research and practice, to generate new ideas and to tackle long term problems in educational assessment.

• Part 1: Educational Assessment and the Principles that Underpin It 1. Educational assessment and the role of the teacher 2. The qualities of all good educational assessment: validity, reliability, fairness and practicality 3. The ethics of educational assessment Part 2: Practical Steps for Devising Good Assessment in the Classroom 4. Be clear about why you want to assess 5. Be clear about who you want to assess 6. Be clear about what you want to assess 7. Choose approaches and methods to suit your purpose and the evidence for assessment you need 8. Create assessment tasks that help students produce the evidence for assessment you need 9. Judging evidence for assessment 10. Making good use of the outcomes of assessment 11. Overview of the principles of assessment and practical steps for putting these into practice