Assessment

Learning which engages students and challenges their thinking, using a variety of activities.

• Active learning

• Formative assessment

• Scaffold learning

Essential teaching strategies during learning to help teachers and students evaluate progress in terms of understanding and skills acquisition, providing guidance and feedback for subsequent teaching and learning

• Active learning

• Assessment for learning

• Feedback

Information about how the learner is doing in their efforts to reach a goal. It could also come from the learner to the teacher about how they feel the teacher could help them learn better.

• Feedback

• Formative assessment

• Scaffold learning

The teacher provides appropriate guidance and support to enable students to build on their current level of understanding progressively, to acquire confidence and independence in using new knowledge or skills.

• Active learning

• Feedback

• Scaffold learning

Typically end-of-learning assessment tasks such as examinations and tests, to measure and record the level of learning achieved, for progression to the next level or for certification.

• Feedback

• Summative assessment

• Assessment for learning

Activity that provides students with developmental feedback on their progress during the learning programme and informs the design of their next steps in learning.

• Active learning

• Summative assessment

• Formative assessment