Assessment is for Learning

Assessment FOR learning

What is assessment for learning?

Read an introduction to the fundamental ideas

Explore the key features

Follow the links to explore a key feature of assessment for 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 for Learning to your own context with the self-assessment toolkit.

Further reading

Browse our research area for some further reading.
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Assessment for learning is about helping to 'close the gap' between where a learner is in their learning and the desired goal. It connects assessment with learning and teaching.

Assessment for Learning - embedding and extending

This paper presents a rationale and context in which assessment for learning can be both embedded as effective classroom assessment in its own right and also extended to articulate with assessment as learning and assessment of learning.

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