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Curriculum Update,
delivered direct to schools once each term, outlines recent projects to
support teaching and learning, together with information from current
research that could be valuable to schools in their pursuit of excellence
in teaching. This issue looks at Assessment - Te Aro Matawai .
Index
Assessment - Te Aro Matawai
Setting specific and challenging goals: begin at the beginning
Fostering partnerships focused on learning
Using assessment information to improve learning
Feedback
Developing high-quality assessment tools
Assessment overview
Exemplars
Developing teachers' assessment literacy
Informing strategic planning
Recommended readings
Contact and copyright details
Assessment
- Te Aro Matawai
Curriculum
Update outlines recent developments that support teaching and learning.
This Curriculum Update provides information about developments in assessment,
the research that underpins them, and the new tools that are being developed.
These tools will help teachers to gather, analyse, and use high-quality
assessment information in order to make a difference to student learning
outcomes.
The primary purpose of school-based assessment is to improve students'
learning and the quality of learning programmes.
(The New Zealand Curriculum Framework, page 24) |
Assessment information provides feedback to improve teaching and learning.
It allows teachers, schools, and systems to report on what students
have achieved at certain points in time, and it provides information
that assures parents, boards, and the public about the quality of education.
Assessment is the process that helps us to focus on teaching, learning,
and student achievement at classroom, school, and system levels. At
classroom level, assessment is at the heart of teaching and learning.
At school level, it is at the heart of school programme development.
At system level, it is at the heart of policy development.
The
focuses of the national assessment strategy are:
- setting specific and challenging goals with students;
- fostering partnerships focused on learning;
- using assessment information to improve learning;
- developing high-quality assessment tools;
- developing teachers' assessment literacy;
- informing strategic planning.
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