Pass It On October 2013, Issue 2 | Page 8

Did you know……

There are 5 key strategies in effective formative assessment.

In his book ‘Embedded Formative Assessment’, Dylan Wiliam argues there are 5 key strategies in effective formative assessment. These being:

Clarifying, sharing and understanding learning intentions and criteria with students.

Engineering effective classroom discussions, activities and learning tasks that elicit evidence of learning from students.

Providing evidence of moving students learning forward.

Developing students as learning resources for one another.

Developing students as owners of their own learning.

This document from Fiona Hogg.com explores a range of brillint AfL strategies.

Take a look at more than 60 AfL strategies here.

Have you seen the classroom experiment? This clip explores the use of lollipop sticks for questioning.

This site is filled with asssessment ideas and comes from the minstry of education in New Zealand.