Assessment is for Learning

Assessment FOR Learning - giving feedback

To what extent are our children and staff given timely feedback about the quality of their work and how to make it better?

The Child at the Centre and National Care Standards

Quality Indicator	Theme	Care Standard
5.4 Assessment for learning	Use of assessment information to identify and plan future learning	Standard 4: Engaging with children Standard 5: Quality of experience Standard 6: Support and development
5.2 Teaching for effective learning	Judgements made in the course of teaching
5.3 Meeting learningneeds	Learning opportunities, tasks, activities and resources

*QIs and themes in bold indicate those which most closely relate to this key feature.

We ensure that the feedback we provide is positive and encouraging while taking care that it develops learning.
All children can make progress from where they are, based on assessment of and feedback on their last activity.
Children take responsibility for, and are active in, their own learning.
We use assessment information formatively to plan for future learning experiences.

To what extent do we give children and staff timely feedback and provide them with information about their progress in a way which is motivating and values individual achievement?
To what extent does our feedback give children and staff a very clear sense of what they might do next?
To what extent do we use assessment information systematically to identify learning needs and plan future learning experiences?
To what extent do our learning and teaching approaches help children to develop as responsible citizens?