Assessment is for Learning
Assessment FOR Learning: Sharing criteria
Douglas Ewart High School and associated primaries
The project explored how learning intentions could be shared effectively in mathematics and in talking and listening.Carmuirs Primary School
Primary 1 teachers investigated several aspects of formative assessment, including sharing criteria with children in the form of a puppet called WILF.Crombie Primary School
In this extract, the teacher looks at sharing the criteria in writing with pupils. She also tries to give good feedback to help pupils improve their writing.Helensburgh and Lomond Pre-school Group
The Group developed a range of visual methods for sharing criteria with young children.John Ogilvie High School, South Lanarkshire
The Social Subjects departments collaborated in trialling formative assessment approaches with S1 classes.Liberton High School
The teacher aimed to promote more confidence and independence in learning among his pupils. He focused on increasing their understanding of success criteria for writing tasks through discussion and prepared checklists.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
NEW 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.
St. David’s RC High School cluster
The school shared learning intentions and success criteria across transition stages.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.The Gordon Schools
Diaries were kept, with targets for each lesson set out and discussed at the start, and time allocated to write about it afterwards. The diaries were then used to plan the next lesson.Using Concept Cartoons to promote discussion in science
NEW 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
NEW 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.
