The assessment community
Every year, around 70,000 individuals are involved annually in external examining, moderating and marking Key Stage tests, GCSEs and A Levels.More about the assessment community
Changing Assessment Practices -Professor John Gardner
A summary of Professor John Gardner's Keynote speech
- Changes in assessment must be to improve pupil learning.
- Teachers should assume more control in the assessment of their pupils.
- Teachers need to be involved in the whole assessment process.
- There seems to be a lack of training in assessment for teachers, they need more professional learning.
- Change in assessment is under-designed.
- The planning process must have a 'sustainable development'.
- Common principles and standards of quality assessment practise are needed.
- Any improvement in assessment requires research evidence that it works.
- Initially pilot schemes seem to be enthusiastically received, however the transition to full implementation does not seem to run smoothly.
- Heads need to facilitate the change for assessment.
- Teachers need to take more control.
- They need to give teachers time and direction to create a substainable direction.
- Changes in assessment need to be planned for and implemented thoroughly.
- Assessment of anykind should improve learning