PTC11 - Assessment

Criteria Eleven: Analyse and appropriately use assessment information, which has been gathered formally and informally.

Key Indicators:

- Analyse assessment information to identify progress and ongoing learning needs of ākonga 

- Use assessment information to give regular and ongoing feedback to guide and support further learning; 

- Analyse assessment information to reflect on and evaluate the effectiveness of the teaching;

- Communicate assessment and achievement information to relevant members of the learning community

- Foster involvement of whānau in the collection and use of information about the learning of ākonga.

Link to the New Zealand Curriculum:

The primary purpose of assessment is to improve students’ learning and teachers’ teaching. Assessment is an ongoing process that arises out of the interaction between teaching and learning.

Assessment provides evidence of student progress (p.39, 40).

RTC 11 & e-learning - guiding question:

How can I use e-learning tools to gather and use assessment information in ways that advance the learning of my akonga/students?

Questions I have asked myself:

- What sources of data could I be using?

- How do I know that my students are progressing?

- Have I used a range of sources of data?

- Do I need someone to help me interpret the data?

- How do I gather and use assessment information in ways that advances the learning of my ākonga?

Strategies that have helped me:

- Observations of other staff. members and other PRTs.

- Effective planning.

- KNOWING the students who are in the class.

- Good use of questioning techniques to establish background knowledge.

- Student voice/ reflection.

- Plan in partnership with the students – be able to adapt according to how the lesson is going.

- Use of diagnostic testing to establish learning styles and prior knowledge.

- Attending relevant PD, particularly relating to strategies.

Reflections:

- What do the student surveys tell me about their attitude and their view of their achievement / progress in my class?

- Where are my students at on the National Curriculum?

- Do I regularly share assessment information with the students and whānau?

Evidence that might support this:

- Reflection notes on gathered information.

- Teacher self-review demonstrates appropriate use of assessment tools.

- Examples of how I share assessment information with whānau, teachers and ākonga.

- Examples of assessment information appropriately recorded. 

- Planning reflects use of assessment as a reflective tool.