Introduction

Testing and Assessment – definitions
Why test or assess at all?

Formative assessment – assessment for learning

• The home visit or the child’s initial visit to school – what does the child already know when she first comes to school?
• Assessment through observation – discover students’ multiple intelligences and their strengths;
• Special educational needs – what does he enjoy doing? personalise his learning programme;
• Group assessment – assess students’ multiple intelligences using a rubric;
• Authentic problem solving and assessment – expert assessment of real life situations;
• You are not the only one who can assess – students’ self assessment and peer assessment;
• Multiple Intelligences assessment of knowledge, skills, understanding and attitudes;
• Creating your own subject specific assessments;
• End of lesson evaluation – to help you plan for the next lesson;
• Monitoring and target setting – use assessment to raise standards and set goals.

Summative assessment- test and assessment results

• Comprehensive and continuous assessment – leading to accumulative assessment;
• End of topic assessment – recording students’ knowledge, skills, understanding and attitudes.

Accumulative assessment

• Tests and examinations – assessment against criteria laid down in the syllabus;
• Different ways of assessing – assessment through different tasks;
• Collating the evidence – tracking and a processfolio – collecting evidence, recording progress.