Assessment for Learning: Putting It into Practice

Book by Paul Black, Christine Harrison, Clare Lee, Bethan Marshall, Dylan Wiliam; Open University Press, 2003.

135 pgs.

An assessment activity can help learning if it provides information to
be used as feedback by teachers, and by their students in assessing
themselves and each other, to modify the teaching and learning
activities in which they are engaged. Such assessment becomes formative
assessment when the evidence is used to adapt the teaching work to meet
learning needs. Formative assessment can occur many times in every
lesson. It can involve several different methods for encouraging
students to express what they are thinking and several different ways
of acting on such evidence. It has to be within the control of the
individual teacher and, for this reason, change in formative assessment
practice is an integral and intimate part of a teacher's daily work.(Black et al. 2)

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Book that finally made me understand what is meant by AfL in practice. Most of the time, especially when discussed by colleagues at school, this was about data and how data inform targets and intervention. Which is important too. But how do you gather data, how do you intervene, how do you make it meaningful for Y7 students?

In the picture with other books I read recently it makes more sense. Teachers talk, body language, giving feedback, asking questions, teaching students to assess themself and their peers...