Tag: Collaborative group assessment
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AFTER: How is evaluation different to assessment?
Evaluation is often confused with assessment. Some people use these two words interchangeably when they talk about assessing learners. For our purposes, evaluation means something different to assessment. Let’s have a look at the differences. Assessment asks questions like this: Have my learners improved? What gains did they make? Did Damon pass the test? Does…
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AFTER: Collecting some final information for your portfolio
You need to gather up some evaluation data so that you can write up your final reflections in the final section of the assessment template. There are two kinds of evaluation data that you need: Learner evaluation data. We have a template that you can use or modify the template which we’ll share shortly. Or…
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AFTER: What does it all mean? Analysing your learners’ literacy and numeracy progress
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…
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AFTER: What evidence do I need to start pulling together for Assessment 7?
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…
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AFTER: What do I actually do for a collaborative assessment?
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…
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Teach Better Now – Where’s the new content for Assessment 5 of the NZCALNE on literacy and numeracy diagnostic?
Kia ora ano and welcome to the next exciting instalment If you’re reading this it’s likely that you’re up to Assessment 5 in the new and improved NZCALNE (Voc). Well done you…! Like the other content, it will be live on Pathways Awarua as soon as possible. But as always, you can find it on…
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What does a literacy and numeracy-focused learning plan look like?
What does a good learning plan look like? You’ll need to complete two learning plans for your NZCALNE (Voc). One for each of the two learners that you’re tracking through this project work. Happily, we have an easy-to-use format for learning plans. And we’ve built this into the template for Assessment 5. If you’re ready to…
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BEFORE: How do you write learning plans with a focus on literacy and numeracy?
Good work… One final short module and we will have covered everything that you need for Collection 5. The last thing here is how to write learning plans that focus on literacy and numeracy. Specifically, we want you to use the data that you’re getting from your diagnostic assessments and use it in a constructive…
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Diagnostic assessment results: What does it all mean? How to understand your learners’ results
What do I do with the results of my learners’ diagnostic assessments? Once you’ve marked your learners’ diagnostic, you need to tell us what it all means. We’ve made this easy in the template by asking a series of questions that you answer for each of your two learners. If you follow the format and respond…
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BEFORE: Review questions for when you’ve collected your diagnostic assessment results from your learners
Hopefully, you’ve been able to dip into this Collection and find or use the parts that are relevant to what you teach. We’ve covered a lot of ground. Here’s a quick recap of what we’ve discussed in terms of diagnostic assessment: Using the Assessment Tool for literacy and numeracy. Using learner self-assessment to measure confidence.…