EDF1552 - Using assessment to respond to diversity across the school years

This introductory unit is about the assessment of teaching practices, environment and student learning across the school years. An important aspect of teaching learners with diverse needs is to understand the learner well. Students learn the practical assessment processes of gathering and interpreting information for use by learners and their teachers, to decide where the learners are in their learning, what impacts on progress, where they need to go and how best to get there. The focus of this unit is on assessment for learning rather than assessment of learning. Assessment for learning involves self-reflection and self-assessment that allow teachers to make better learning and teaching decisions but also develop learners' own understanding of how their learning is taking place and how it can be developed.