Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Assessment for Learning in STEM Teaching
National STEM Learning Centre
Throughout this course learners explored: the theory and science behind effective Assessment for Learning; how to use Assessment for Learning to elicit evidence about what’s going on in your learners’ minds; how to use this evidence formatively with your learners in your laboratory and classroom; and how to write, judge and use the hinge-point questions that are central to Assessment for Learning in STEM.
6 weeks, 3 hours per week
Christine Harrison
Chair of the Association for Science Education 2014-2015 and Senior Lecturer in Science Education,
King’s College, London
Dylan Wiliam
Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment,
UCL Institute of Education (IOE)
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify the main principles of Assessment for Learning
- Assess some of the research literature about Assessment for Learning
- Reflect on the role of intentional dialogue in supporting teaching in a formative way
- Explain the key characteristics of a hinge-point question
- Improve ability to create hinge-point questions through a peer review design and evaluation process
- Contribute to a crowd-sourced repository of hinge-point questions
- Collaborate with peers, educators and mentors to try out activities and share thinking in order to help shift practice
- Evaluate a range of practical ideas that can be used to elicit evidence from students
- Collect and analyse evidence from students on changes implemented in the classroom in order to critically reflect on own practice in order to prioritise next steps in own development
Syllabus
- The key principles of Assessment for Learning.
- Intentional dialogue.
- Hinge-point questions.
- Questioning as a source of evidence.
- Acting on the evidence.
- Evolving your practice teaching in a formative way.
Issued on 11th March 2018
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