EDUC267 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Formative Assessment

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Teacher Education
• Course: EDUC267
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Using as a tool for providing feedback and improving teaching and learning. Knowledge is constructed by the learner who interprets new phenomena, situations and events through the lens of past experiences and current understandings. Understanding can not be transmitted from one individual to another. Students have existing understandings that therefore need to be identi ed through diagnostic assessment and built upon by providing timely and appropriate feedback. Learners interpret new phenomena situations and events through the lens of their past experiences and current understandings. Existing knowledge and experiences > new learning. Assessment to nd out their prior knowledge. Learners can not be viewed as passive recipients. Each individual is ultimately responsible for their own learning. Learning is seen as involving a change in the learners conceptions. Personal knowledge is not taken to be objective, but is personally and socially constructed. Teaching is not the transmission of knowledge, but the negotiation of meaning.