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The document discusses three purposes of assessment: assessment of learning, assessment for learning, and assessment as learning. Assessment of learning, also called summative assessment, measures student competency and achievement at the end of a learning period to determine grades. Assessment for learning, or formative assessment, provides feedback to students to help them improve during the learning process. Assessment as learning involves self-assessment and reflection to help students monitor and take responsibility for their own learning. The key difference between summative and formative assessment is how the results are used.

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Assessment of For As Learning PDF

The document discusses three purposes of assessment: assessment of learning, assessment for learning, and assessment as learning. Assessment of learning, also called summative assessment, measures student competency and achievement at the end of a learning period to determine grades. Assessment for learning, or formative assessment, provides feedback to students to help them improve during the learning process. Assessment as learning involves self-assessment and reflection to help students monitor and take responsibility for their own learning. The key difference between summative and formative assessment is how the results are used.

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Purposes of assessment

Why do we assess our students?


What are the purposes?
• Assessment of learning / summative
• Assessment for learning / formative
• Assessment as learning / formative

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Purposes of assessment
Assessment of learning / summative
 Purpose: to measure and show competency; for managerial /
accountability towards society / employers / keep up
standards in academic world / show grade-level, degrees
 It’s about: selection, grading, certification, progression,
professional recognition, maintaining standards
 When: at the end of a task, unit, program. Interim and final
exams. Grades mark transitions in a course and bring
closure to it.
 Role teacher: use evidence of student learning to make judgments
on student achievement against goals and standards; give
grades (accurate, fair, based on valid evidence; important
because of the impact)
 It needs: justification for a particular assessment at a
particular moment; justification for what you
assess, how and how you decide about the grades
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Purposes of assessment

Assessment for learning / formative


 Purpose: educational, diagnostic; helping students to learn and
improve; helping students to achieve the learning goals
 It’s about: feedback, diagnosis, motivation, guidance, learning
support (doesn’t need a mark)
 When: whenever useful; during teaching process
 Role teacher: diagnose problems and learning needs; provide
feedback; clarify intended outcomes and standards;
advice how to improve; enhance motivation
 It needs: tools to diagnose; clear expectation what has to be
learned and standards; interaction; differentiated
teaching strategies fitting the needs

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Purposes of assessment
Assessment as learning / formative
 Purpose: learning to learn, learning students to monitor their own
learning process, to learn metacognitive skills
 It’s about: self and peer assessment, reflection, students setting own
goals, stimulating responsibly for learning
 When: during teaching process
 Role teacher: model and teach skills for self assessment; provide guidance
for monitoring learning processes and to deal with
uncertainty; help them setting goals and develop criteria for
good practice
 It needs: models of good practice and quality work; interaction; safe
learning environment and support system

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Purposes of assessment

What makes an assessment “summative” is not the design of the test


or assignment but the way it is used.

Assessment focuses on gathering information about student


achievement to make instructional decisions. Grading is an end‐point
judgment about student achievement. (Tomlinson & McTighe, 2006)

Resource and quick overview:


PP-links: Assessment of, for and as Learning. Rethinking Classroom
Assessment with Purpose in Mind.

Short videos: Assessment For Learning vs. Assessment Of Learning;


What is Assessment?

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