SCE3260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Summative Assessment, Formative Assessment
14 Apr 2019
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6 key ideas: patterns, order, and organisation, form and function, stability and change, scale and measurement, matter and energy, systems. Reporting is the process of communicating the outcomes of assessments to parents, carers, and students. Teachers can use the term assessment to mean either a process or a product. Process of assessment some products of the assessment process. Types of assessment: diagnostic; used to find out what students already know, key to teachers" planning. It is an integral, not occasional, part of teaching. Students; reading ability, esl, learning difficulties, ability to recall, ability to concentrate for long periods. Teachers; reusing (old) tasks and worksheets without updating, tendency to value quantity and presentation rather than quality, gives marks/grades rather than advice for improvement, compares students against each other rather than criteria. Person centred vs subject centred: what do you think makes the sound when you pluck a guitar string (person centred, what happens when the guitar string is plucked (subject centred)
