Assessment Essentials

This course will:

• Deepen pedagogical content knowledge of the fundamental underlying principles and practices of great assessment, no matter the subject or phase of education;
• Help to reduce unnecessary workload and increase the effectiveness of classroom practice by honing the skill of evidence-informed decision-making;
• Guide teachers to question existing practices;
• Help link assessment with curriculum and pedagogy, to improve student outcomes;
• Reframe the value of assessment, offering case studies and advice from other school leaders;
• Help teachers remove the guesswork from teaching through use of more dependable information;
• Help teachers to better understand the impact of their teaching on students’ learning, so that they can make better decisions about what happens next; and
• Maximise the power of assessment as a tool for learning.

Participants will be required to commit to around 1.5 hours per week for the duration of the ten-week course. The course will follow the structure outlined below:

• Week 1: Introduction and perspectives on assessment
• Week 2: Making the invisible (learning) visible
• Week 3: Harnessing assessment as a powerful learning event
• Week 4: Intent, implementation and impact
• Week 5: Assessment process in your context
• Week 6: Using key assessment theory to guide practice (e.g. validity inc. reliability, etc.)
• Week 7: Fairness in assessment
• Week 8: Theory into practice: selecting and designing assessments
• Week 9: Theory into practice: selecting and designing assessments (pt.2)
• Week 10: Embedding great assessment in your classroom.

• Rolling enrolment; learning can begin as soon as registration is complete.
• This course is ideal for ITT, RQTs, and in-service teachers.

Fees: £95 plus VAT per person