planning assessment as learning

Planning Assessment as Learning

How can I use the information from this assessment? TS

How can I ensure quality in this assessment process?

What assessment method should I use?

Why am I assessing?

What am I assessing?

Kinzang WangdiSamdrup Gyeltshen Dawa Tshering

Why am I assessing?

• Emphasizes the importance of using assessment as a learning tool for teachers to gather detailed insights into students' progress in developing independent learning skills and habits of mind.

• By leveraging assessment for learning, teachers can understand how students are evolving in their abilities to monitor, challenge, and adjust their own learning processes.

• Concurrently, students are empowered to take ownership of their learning journey by monitoring and challenging their understanding, predicting outcomes, making informed decisions about progress and challenges, identifying further knowledge needs, organizing ideas, checking for consistency, drawing analogies, and setting personal goals.

• In essence, assessment as learning serves as a catalyst for fostering student independence and self-directed learning.

What am I assessing?

How students understand concepts, and in how they use metacognitive analysis to make adjustments to their understanding.

strategies students use to support or challenge, adjust, and advance their learning.

Teachers monitor students’ goal-setting process and their thinking about their learning

What assessment methodshould I use?

Teachers teach students how to use the methods so that they can monitor their own learning, think about where they feel secure in their learning and where they feel confused or uncertain, and decide about a learning plan. Although many assessment methods have the potential to encourage reflection and review, what matters in assessment as learning is that the methods allow students to consider their own learning in relation to models, exemplars, criteria, rubrics, frameworks, and checklists that provide images of successful learning.

How can I ensure quality in this assessment process?

Validity

reference point

Record-Keeping

Reliability

1. scaffolding students’ understanding; 2. providing criteria, exemplars, and resources to help them analyze their own work; 3. teaching them the necessary skills to think about their own learning in relation to their prior understanding and the curricular learning outcomes; and 4. gathering evidence about how well they are learning

Reliability

Reliability in assessment as learning is related to consistency and confidence in students’ self-reflection, self-monitoring, and self-adjustment. ​

How can I use the information from this assessment?

Feedback to Students

Differentiating Learning

Reporting