Assessment for Learning: Putting IT Together (classroom & Asynchronous E-Learning)

The course begins by revisiting the tensions between different AfL agendas particularly from social-cultural perspective before examining the society/school-wide, teachers and students' teaching/learning conditions, processes, functions and outcomes of efficacious practices of AfL.

What You'll Learn

Course participants will propose a coherent set of assessment practices in terms of the design of assessment tasks, assessment rubrics for achievement standards, and formative feedback as dialogue, that enhances the efficacious use of Assessment for Learning (AfL) that would be compatible with social-cultural settings within Singaporean schools and institution contexts.

The following topics will be explored:

• What are the tensions between different AfL agendas particularly from social-cultural perspective?
• What are society/school-wide, teachers and students' teaching/learning conditions, processes, functions and outcomes of efficacious practices of AfL?
• How can assessment tasks, rubrics and feedback enhance efficacious AfL assessment in one's own context?