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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Assessment for Learning in STEM Teaching
National STEM Learning Centre
Through this course you’ll understand: 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 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
Week 1: The main principles of Assessment for Learning
- About Assessment for Learning
Week 2: Intentional dialogue
- Teaching in a formative way
- Digging deeper
Week 3: Hinge-point questions
- Hinge-point questions - an overview
- Hinge-point questions - the ‘nitty gritty’
- Writing and critiquing hinge-point questions
Week 4: Questioning as a source of evidence
- Kinds of evidence
- Hinge-point questions revisited
Week 5: Acting on the evidence
- Evidence from what learners say
- Evidence from hinge-point questions
- Finding out what your learners make of your use of questions
Week 6: Your formative classroom - evolving your practice
- What your students think
- What excellent formative practice involves
- Vignettes to develop your own thinking
Issued on 13th December 2016
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