Course: Adult Education Essentials: Assessment for Learning Principles and Practices

When do you use competency-based assessment? What types of assessments are competency-based? Competency-based assessment is used at the end of a training module or course to check knowledge and skills …

Not all assessments need to be boring and textbook-related. This video clip gives an example of a student-centred assessment that really made a difference. See how you too can make …

Portfolio assessment A portfolio assessment is particularly useful for assessing arts-based and creative learning outcomes. Usually, a collection of learners’ work, portfolios come in a range of types, sizes, and …

Most learning organisations will have robust credit transferral processes to ensure consistency, fairness, and validity for crediting prior learning and competency towards a qualification or award. Several assessment types sit …

Principles and practices Although we will be looking at a range of assessments, the components of good assessment practice do not vary. To provide a robust assessment, all assessments should: …

How do you create a competency-based assessment? How are these different from other assessment types? The following includes a step-by-step guide. Steps to creating a competency-based assessment: Identify and state …

“Assessment should be an ongoing process that “arises out of the interaction between teaching and learning.” (NZ MoE). Assessment serves a range of purposes with a range of assessment types …

Constructive feedback also feeds “forward” The most common type of feedback learners receive is formal feedback (either written or verbal) on assessments. Assessment feedback serves two main purposes (Brown, Race, …

Feedback is an essential part of the learning process no matter what the subject. People will always want to improve their performance, whether at work, school, or University, or even …