Assessment is for Learning
Self-Assessment Toolkit for Schools
Welcome to the second edition of the AifL Self-assessment Toolkit for schools. This resource aims to help practitioners understand the scope of the AifL key features and implement them into their teaching practice.
In this updated version each of the 10 key features of AifL has been updated and mapped in line with quality indicators and themes in How Good is Our School 3 - The Journey to Excellence.
In addition the four capacities of Curriculum for Excellence have been incorporated to demonstrate the common ground between Assessment is for Learning and Curriculum for Excellence.
High quality interactions
To what extent do our assessment practices involve high quality interactions based on thoughtful questions, careful listening and reflective responses?
Involvement and next steps
To what extent are our pupils and staff fully involved in deciding next steps in their learning and identifying who can help?
Feedback
To what extent are our pupils and staff given feedback about the quality of their work and how to make it better?
Sharing criteria
To what extent are our pupils, staff and parents clear about what is to be learned and what success would be like?
Self and peer assessment
To what extent do our pupils and staff practise self and peer assessment?
Goal setting
To what extent do our pupils and staff help to set their own learning goals?
Reflection
To what extent do our pupils and staff identify and reflect on their own evidence of learning?
Using a range of evidence
To what extent do we use a range of evidence from day-to-day activities to check on pupils' progress?
Sharing standards
To what extent do we talk and work together to share standards in and across schools?