Assessment is for Learning

Assessment AS Learning: setting learning goals (personal learning planning)

Setting one's own learning goals

NEW A project exploring different ways of identifying pupils’ prior learning and using it to involve them in planning new topics and evaluating their learning.

Assessment as learning through an interdisciplinary approach

NEW A group of teachers from South Lanarkshire investigated approaches to personal learning planning (assessment as learning).

Target setting, tracking and reporting - Buckie High School

NEW Moray ASG focused on developing personal learning planning in S5 at Higher Level across three subjects – mathematics, English and German. 

Building on personal learning planning in the Primary Sector

This cross-establishment project involving six primaries in Clackmannanshire built on the previous year’s work on personal learning planning.

Elgin ASG

Formative assessment was used as a basis for taking forward an investigation into approaches to personal learning planning.

Personal learning planning in health and wellbeing

This group devised a whole school wall display on which pupils' targets were moved on bicycles towards a success line over a short period of time.

St Joseph's Primary School, Fife

The school adapted personal learning plans used in other contexts and overcame some of the issues involved in the PLP process.

Using research to inform practice

These teachers involved educational psychologists to improve the quality of learning and teaching in their classrooms.
an image of a teacher and pupil in discussion
'The value will always be the discussion then the setting of targets which are owned by the pupils.'