Assessment is for Learning
Assessment AS learning
What is assessment as learning?
Read an introduction to the fundamental ideasExplore the key features
Follow the links to explore a key feature of assessment as learning in depth, including resources to help you develop your practice, case studies from schools and associated schools groups, links to further reading, discussion, and a glossary of terms.Become an AifL school or early years establishment
Adapt the principles of assessment as learning to your own context with the self-assessment toolkit.Further reading
Browse our research area for some further reading.Progress File
Progress File is a set of guides designed to assist individuals, from ages 12 to adult, plan and manage their own learning and their career development.
Assessment as learning is about understanding how learners learn and empowering them to take responsibility for their own learning. It connects learning and teaching with the curriculum.
Personal learning planning in Scotland 1998-2005
This paper outlines the development of personal learning planning in Scottish primary and secondary schooling and suggests some ways forward for its further development within the AifL - Assessment is for Learning programme.
PDF file: Personal Learning Planning in Scotland 1998-2005 (156KB)