Assessment FOR Learning: high quality interactions

Aberdeenshire Home Economics Curriculum Support Group

The aim was to integrate formative assessment strategies into course development; to identify the impact on pupils in terms of self-motivation, their progress in analytical skills, and their understanding of the learning and teaching process. 

Back School, Western Isles

The teacher improved her questioning technique by asking more higher-order questions and allowing time for pupils to think the answer through and make notes.

Bannockburn HS, Stirling

Bannockburn High School's aims were to improve teaching through developing formative assessment approaches to questioning in mathematics.

Boclair Academy Associated Primary Schools

The Cluster collaborated to develop enhanced questioning and to improve pupils' motivation for learning.

Investigating quality interactions in the nursery

This group of four nursery classes in South Lanarkshire considered ways of improving interactions so that it would challenge the thinking of both adults and children.

Involving children and parents in setting personal learning goals

NEW This ASG in East Dunbartonshire set out to more fully involve children and their parents in setting learning goals for individual children.

Langcraigs Primary School, Renfrewshire

Langcraigs Primary School focused on development of structured questioning in environmental studies lessons.

Plockton Primary School

The school found that questioning leads to skills development and thus to the development of informed attitudes.

Sunnyside PS, Clackmannanshire

The teacher and a colleague recorded each other's lessons on video to try and improve questioning techniques, including wait time.

Using ICT to involve parents and improve staff/child interactions

NEW This ASG in West Dunbartonshire brought together four local authority nurseries and one private nursery to explore the use of ICT in Assessment for and of Learning.

Using questioning to help children with additional support needs

NEW. The group's aim was to improve the quality of interactions between teachers and pupils with additional support needs (ASN), whether one to one, in small groups or as part of in-class support.

Using questions to support the development of listening and talking

NEW This project began when one of the teachers involved realised that listening and talking could provide a way of extending work in P4-P7 on Literacy Circles to earlier stages in the school.

Using questions to improve thinking in mathematics

NEW These teachers aimed to review how they used classroom questioning in order to improve their pupils’ capacity for engaging in mathematical thinking.