Formative Assessment

 

Differentiating between Assessment and Evaluation is critical to effective teaching; the former is often called formative and is a teaching approach, the latter summative and it is used for measurement and reporting. This series of related sessions explores the Philosophy & Practice of assessment for learning.

Here is the current list; please do not hesitate to contact us (using the Contact Us form to the right) about any Assessment or Evaluation concerns you have as we are continually developing new sessions, and what you want may already exist or be in the pipeline.

• Evaluating Teachers v Staff Appraisal
• Feedback and Feedforward (coming soon)
• Formative Assessment : student-led approaches (coming soon)
• Formative Assessment : what is it and why is it so important? (coming soon)
• Formative Assessment of Speaking, an overview and sample approaches (coming soon)
• Formative Assessment of Writing, an overview and sample approaches (coming soon)
• Positive Assessment
• Visible Learning, an introduction (coming soon)

Formative Assessment is linked to and an element of Positive Education. 

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• A C1 or higher level of English is assumed.

• Thise are one-hour synchronous online video conferencing sessiona; in-person, face-to-face options are also available.

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