Tag: diagnostic
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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…
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What is contextualised assessment? An Essential Guide for Vocational Educators
Contextualised Assessment. Discover the benefits of contextualized assessment for vocational educators in this informative blog post. Learn how this approach can improve learning outcomes and enhance student engagement in vocational education. Explore practical tips for implementing contextualized assessment in your classroom and help your students succeed
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BEFORE: What is summative assessment?
What is summative assessment and what’s it for? Summative assessment is a type of assessment that happens at the end of a programme or unit of study. Often the focus is on achieving an outcome or determining the level of understanding. This might include a mark or grade against an expected standard. Sometimes, you might…
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BEFORE: Why is formative assessment so important?
Why are formative assessment and good feedback so important Formative assessment is super important. Here are at least three reasons why: It increases learner motivation. It helps people learn how to learn. It helps you to fine tune your learners’ progress. Let’s look at these… Do you remember our discussion about motivation in the first…
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BEFORE: What is formative assessment?
What is formative assessment and what’s it for? Formative assessment is a type of assessment that examines what a student knows and can do as they progress through a programme or unit of study. Formative assessment can include diagnostic testing. It can also include a range of informal or formal assessments depending on who the…
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BEFORE: What is diagnostic assessment?
What is diagnostic assessment and what’s it for? Diagnostic assessment is a type of assessment that examines what a student knows and can do before a learning programme or smaller unit of study begins. Because diagnostic assessment often happens at the beginning of a programme or unit of study sometimes you hear people call a…
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BEFORE: What are our tools and processes?
Coming up next, there are three areas to cover when we talk about the tools and processes we have to assess literacy and numeracy. Different kinds of assessments The Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Tool How to address environmental and affective factors Different kinds of assessments First, we need to talk about different kinds of…
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BEFORE you teach – LN Diagnostic Assessment
Kia ora and welcome…! Let’s pause for a very quick review. From here on you’ll need to be hands on with your learners in order to complete the coursework and assessments. But it’s good to reflect on what we’ve covered. So far in this course, you have: Learned about the context for adult literacy and…