Tag: Diagnosing
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BEFORE: What is collaborative assessment?
What is collaborative assessment and what’s it for? Collaborative assessment is a kind of self-assessment where the group assesses themselves. This contrasts with learner self-assessment as we discussed earlier where each learner assesses their own skills or abilities. To put it another way: Learner self-assessment asks this question: “How good am I?” Collaborative group assessment asks…
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BEFORE: What is learner self-assessment?
What is learner self-assessment and what’s it for? Self-assessment is a form of assessment where students assess themselves. For our purposes, the focus would include self-assessment of literacy and numeracy skills and practices that underpin your programme or teaching context. The purpose of learner self-assessment is usually diagnostic, but you can use self-assessment both before and after…
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BEFORE: What is non-contextualised assessment?
What is non-contextualised assessment and what’s it for? A non-contextualised assessment is an assessment that examines generic aspects of literacy or numeracy without reference to any particular context. In other words, the aspects of literacy and numeracy that you are testing do not relate to the particular context in which you are teaching. For the…