Assessment is for Learning

Assessment FOR Learning: Sharing criteria

Sharing learning intentions and giving feedback - St Margaret's

NEW North Lanarkshire ASG set out to explore how to use formative assessment with pupils by visiting a number of classrooms in cluster primaries where practice was already established.

Sharing and using learning intentions

NEW The Computing departments from Maxwelltown High School, Douglas Ewart High School and Sanquhar Academy set out to provide Standard Grade pupils with the facility to evaluate their performance against topic-based learning intentions.

Helensburgh and Lomond Pre-school Group

The Group developed a range of visual methods for sharing criteria with young children.

Learning intentions and traffic lighting in primary maths

Learning intentions and traffic lighting built on current formative assessment practices and were used to create a climate where pupils could identify their own successes and achievements.

Sharing learning intentions with pupils with severe and complex learning difficulties

This inter-authority ASG investigated the use of Assessment for Learning with pupils with severe and complex difficulties.

Sharing criteria in St. Columba's HS ASG, Inverclyde

The project stimulated high-quality professional dialogue and sharing of good practice and resulted in teachers feeling much more confident about sharing learning intentions and success criteria.

Strengthening links between Gaelic and Curriculum for Excellence

This inter-authority project focused on strengthening the links between Maths taught in Gaelic and the capacities of Curriculum for Excellence.

Using Concept Cartoons to promote discussion in science

This ASG in Midlothian set out to use Concept Cartoons to support dialogue with pupils in science and to develop collaboration between primary and secondary schools.

Working together to improve classroom assessment

This ASG worked on exploring approaches to assessment for learning across a number of subject areas: history, geography, modern languages, CDT, mathematics, chemistry and biology.

an image of a teacher and a pupil

'Pupils are more involved in their learning – they negotiate success criteria and make decisions about how to achieve learning intentions.'