Assessment is for Learning

Sharing practice in assessment for learning

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High quality interactions

Classroom assessment involving high quality interactions, based on thoughtful questions, careful listening and reflective responses.
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Involving pupils in their learning

Helping pupils and staff to become fully involved in deciding next steps in their learning and identifying who can help.
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Giving effective feedback

How to give pupils and staff timely feedback about the quality of their work and how to make it better.
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Sharing criteria

Ensuring pupils, staff and parents are clear about what is to be learned and what success would be like.
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Assessment for learning

Assessment supports learning by helping learners move on from where they are in their learning, to where the need to be - the desired learning goal. ASGs have explored various ways of putting this into practice in schools around Scotland.