Category: Assessment

🔻 SIGNAL DROP 002: The Assessment Collapse Is Already Here – Real-World Performance Is Breaking the System

Jul 1, 2025

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Graeme Smith

in AI, Assessment

As learners begin using AI tools to outperform curriculum rubrics, institutions face a growing crisis: assessment no longer maps to capability. This post unpacks the rupture between real-world performance and educational validation.
Transform Assessment with AI and GPT: A Positive Approach for Teachers

Mar 20, 2023

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Graeme Smith

in Education, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Assessment, assessment and evaluation, classroom management, Edtech, education technology, educational innovation, innovation, innovative learning solutions, Personalised learning, Personalized Learning, Student Engagement

Discover how AI and GPT-3 can revolutionize assessment in education. Learn about automated grading, personalized assessments, and more in this insightful article on assessment with AI and GPT.
Teach Better Now – Assessment 7 of the NZCALNE (Voc)

Aug 30, 2017

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Graeme Smith

in Assess, Assessment, Embed, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, embedded, Embedded numeracy, embedding, Embedding numeracy, Improve teaching practice, inform teaching, Should we teach, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, Uncategorized, You can teach better
AFTER: What does it all mean? Analysing your learners’ literacy and numeracy progress

Jun 29, 2017

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Assess, Assessment, assessment 7, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Professional Development, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now

Next, you need to analyse your learners’ results in relation to key programme demands by: Summarising progress results including identifying strengths and needs for each learner. Describing implications from the results that can inform the design of future literacy and numeracy teaching and learning strategies We have prompts for all of this to guide you…
AFTER: What evidence do I need to start pulling together for Assessment 7?

Jun 29, 2017

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Assess, Assessment, assessment 7, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Professional Development, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now

There’s a short list below. These aren’t the only things, but now is a good time to recap what you should be doing and supplying as evidence so far. Here is the checklist from the start of Assessment 7. This is the same as in your assessment template. You need to use and then supply…
AFTER: What do I actually do for a collaborative assessment?

Jun 29, 2017

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Assessment, assessment 7, Collaboration, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Professional Development

There are instructions below for yourself and your learners. You can download our template for collaborative assessment here and modify it to suit your learners and teaching context. Tutor Instructions Choose two or three literacy or numeracy activities, goals or learning areas for the group to focus on. Record these on the group worksheet. You…
What is collaborative assessment? A clear explanation and 2 questions to compare with self assessment

Jun 29, 2017

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Graeme Smith

in Education, ALEC, Assess, Assessment, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Professional Development, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now

What is collaborative assessment and how do I use it?
AFTER – Kia ora and welcome to Collection 7 of the NZCALNE (Voc)

Jun 29, 2017

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Assess, Assessment, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Professional Development, Uncategorized

Kia ora and welcome back once again…! This is the final collection and you’ll complete your last assessment task. Let’s do a quick review and then get on with finishing everything off. Here’s an updated outline of what you’ve learned and done so far. Collection 1 – CONTEXT: We learned about definitions, frameworks and factors…
How do I gain access to the TEC Assessment Tool?

Mar 7, 2016

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Graeme Smith

in Assessment, Assessment Tool, Edtech, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, esaa, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, Numeracy, Online assessment, TEC, TEC assessment tool, tech, Technology, Tool, Uncategorized

I’ve written a lot about how to use the TEC’s Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool. Just type “assessment tool” in the search box on this blog and you’ll find a bunch of things including how to access your learners’ actual responses on the tool. But how do you gain access to the tool…
New online ESOL Assessment: Starting Points Listening

Feb 10, 2016

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Graeme Smith

in Assessment, Edtech, Listening, NZCER, TEC, TEC assessment tool, tech, Technology, Uncategorized

The NZCER have just released the Starting Points Listening to the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Assessment Tool. Here’s the blurb: Starting Points Listening is one of two online, adaptive assessment options designed for learners who are at or below koru/step one of the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy. Starting Points Listening assesses a learner’s ability to…