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Assessment ways forward: Developing and reviewing school-based
assessment systems
Fran Baker and Glynn Lorrigan, 1966
Book summary
This book by Fran Baker and Glynn Lorrigan can be used as a guide
to assist both school-wide and classroom-based assessment processes.
The authors state that in their experience schools managing change effectively have the following things in place:
- a strategic plan with transparent objectives developed by the
board of trustees, principal, and teachers together;
- achievement statements that clearly set out what the school
expects its students to achieve. These usually comprise a broad
statement on general school achievement in line with the school's
charter and some more subject specific statements highlighting
the focus for achievement in regard to particular areas of the
curriculum.
- a school-wide assessment policy – a "shared understanding"
of the principles, purposes, and practices of assessment within
the school. A secondary school's accreditation document is an
element of the school assessment policy.
- learning area policies – reviewed/updated in line with
the Ministry implementation timeframe;
- programmes of learning comprising:
- long- and short-term objectives
- scheme matched to the national achievement objectives and
showing coverage thereof
- unit/lesson plans
- a range of teaching/learning approaches
- a range of assessment procedures
- consistent systems for collating and analysing assessment
data
- systems for evaluation of students' achievement.
- consistent systems for reporting:
- students' progress against the national achievement objectives
- students' progress in relation to identified barriers to
learning
- the school's effect in regard to students' achievement.
Bibliographical details
Baker, F., & Lorrigan, G. (1966).
Assessment ways forward: Developing and reviewing school-based
assessment systems. Auckland: Kohia Teachers' Centre.
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