EDF5863 · Assessment and reporting

Overview

This unit provides you with a detailed knowledge of approaches to assessment within secondary schools to support effective learner centred teaching. The unit draws on research and theory to enhance your knowledge of how to undertake assessment cycles and develop a range of assessment tasks and rubrics. The unit examines various approaches to formal and informal assessment, how data is gathered, evaluated to examine student learning and modify teaching practice. You will examine ways to provide effective student feedback and report on student achievement. The unit will also provide you with the skills to interpret student data and undertake moderation processes to support consistent and comparable judgements of student learning. You will have opportunity to consider how to use assessment data in reflecting on, evaluating and improving your own teaching practice.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. analyse and design various assessment strategies (informal, formal, diagnostic, formative and summative) to support student learning and guide teaching
2. critically analyse a range of feedback approaches to support student learning
3. collaborate with peers and analyse multiple sources of student data to facilitate moderation and the consistent and comparable judgements of student achievement
4. describe strategies for reporting student achievement and learning to parents and carers and the purpose of keeping accurate and reliable records of student achievement
5. interpret student assessment data to evaluate student learning and improve teaching practice.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 24 hours* of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities; and • the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement. *Subject to variation due to professional experience requirements

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.