Unpacking the broad assessment agenda we face in schools today and exploring new insights and solutions for the challenges we face. Let’s face it, the assessment agenda is fraught with mixed metaphors, blind alleys and confusing vocabulary! Let’s re-establish assessment in it’s rightful place as an integral part of any learning.
It is all about the grade at the end of the day. How can I break this everlasting cycle?
I want my students to be more central in their learning, how do I take steps towards this?
I think I am doing OK with assessment in my classroom, but how does this compare with elsewhere in the world? Do others face the same challenge?
Attendees will:
- understand the key issues that swirl around the assessment agenda for schools;
- reflect on their own assessment practices and place them in the wider national and international context;
- see real world examples of how assessment innovations are being applied in sectors beyond the education sector;
- explore a range of misleading metaphors, helping to create a clearer definition of what assessment can and should be;
- leave with a better understanding about what assessment is and isn’t;
- review and debate the challenges we face as teachers, as a nation;
- find solutions to local challenges and begin to see how assessment can be a platform for students to reflect and develop higher order thinking skills.