ASSESSMENT

The link below will take you to a downloadable version of the AifL Glossary:

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/Images/AIFLGlossary_tcm4-456792.pdf

Please follow the link below to find downloadable versions of a number of documents related to the devlopment of AifL:

You will find: Inside the Black Box, Assessment for Learning, Working Inside the Black Box, Assessment for Learning: 10 Principles and other related papers.

http://www.qcda.gov.uk/13440.aspx

Clink on the link below to access the Journey to Excellence Professional Development Pack entitled: Assessment as Part of Learning. NOTE: Not all links to videos are still active – most are so don’t give up!

After completing this programme of study you will be able to:

 • change how you establish learning outcomes for your pupils and assess their learning;

 • understand better the characteristics of excellent schools in establishing learning outcomes and targets and assessing learning outcomes;

 • have seen and reflected on some high quality work being done in schools across all sectors in the context of Curriculum for Excellence;

 • have discussed some current thinking and research on the purposes and uses of assessment; and

 • have carried out and reported on a piece of personal classroom research on the impact of some forms of assessment on learning.

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/Images/AssessmentrevisedJan09final2_tcm4-529044.pdf

Clink on the link below to access the Journey to Excellence Professional Development Pack entitled: Focus on Outcomes – Maximise Success.

After completing this programme you will have:

 • have reflected on the ways in which careful planning and sharing of learning outcomes and success criteria can improve learning and achievement;

 • have prepared and led a piece of learning for your pupils that establishes learning outcomes, success criteria and the quality of outcome expected;

 • be aware of the contribution that assessment, based on learning outcomes and success criteria can make to the learning of all pupils;

 • have involved all learners in the assessment of their own learning and that of their peers;

 • used a range of assessment “tools” for formative purposes;

 • developed knowledge and experience of monitoring, tracking and recording learners’ progress and used the consequent data to plan future learning; and

• considered and implemented ways of engaging parents and other partners more directly in children’s learning and in the school’s more general achievements, keeping them informed of progress.

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/Images/OutcomesandSuccessRevisedFeb09final2_tcm4-534555.pdf

Click the link below to access a range of development activities from the HC Reflection Framework aimed at embedding formative assessment in the classroom:

‘This unit examines how teachers can develop their own understanding and use of formative assessment to help pupils become more actively involved in their own learning.’

http://hvlc.org.uk/ace/aifl/Unit_B1.htm

Click the link below to access a range of development activities from the HC Reflection Framework aimed at making thinking explicit:

‘This unit examines how teachers can develop their own understanding and use of formative assessment to help pupils become more actively involved in their own learning.’

http://hvlc.org.uk/ace/aifl/Unit_B2.htm

Click the link below to access a range of development activities from the HC Reflection Framework aimed at exploring the AIfL triangle:

 ‘This unit examines how teachers can develop their own understanding and use of formative assessment to help pupils become more actively involved in their own learning.’

http://hvlc.org.uk/ace/aifl/Unit_C1.htm

Click the link below to access a range of development activities from the HC Reflection Framework aimed at showing how the principles and practices of AifL help achieve the purposes of CfE:

‘This unit examines how teachers can use the principles and practice established through their engagement with the Assessment is for Learning programme to achieve the purposes of A Curriculum for Excellence.’

http://hvlc.org.uk/ace/aifl/Unit_C2.htm