About the course
Assessment is a cornerstone of effective teaching, providing critical insights into student learning and helping teachers make informed decisions about their own practice. Classroom Assessment for Teachers: Transforming Outcomes for Learners equips educators with the skills to conduct meaningful assessments and deliver focused feedback that maximises student progress.
The development of this course has been led by Cambridge expert and former teacher, James Beadle, in collaboration with The Assessment Network design team. Read his latest blog series on AI and Assessment in the classroom.
In a successful pilot of over 100 international teachers, 100% of respondees felt the course met the learning objectives with 93% rating the course as good or excellent.
- A range of practical activities, including interactive quizzes and frameworks, for individual reflection or adaptation for departmental or school-level impact.
- The course explores classroom assessment using a wide range of subjects from Mathematics, English, Physics, Drama, and Psychology.
- Classroom Assessment will be scalable to wider school or trust involvement with learn as a school discounts.
- On-demand learning which will take approximately 12 hours to complete in a budget-friendly and flexible format.
- The modules are designed to be compatible with the latest accessibility tools, ensuring the best possible experience for all learners.
- Certification upon completion of course modules.
After completing this course you will be able to:
- Gain an understanding of the key foundational principles for effective assessment, including validity, reliability, comparability, fairness, and manageability.
- Take a strategic approach to assessment, supported by an assessment framework, and use concepts such as spacing and interleaving to maximise the progression made by your students.
- Know how to design and ask powerful questions that meaningfully gather the information you need.
- Identify the different types of data that can be gathered from assessments and interpret these in a critical manner, with an understanding of any potential threats to the validity of inferences you need to make.
- Appreciate what makes feedback effective, gain a toolkit for delivering effective feedback and what factors determine student receptiveness to feedback.
- Understand what is meant by metacognition, the role it likely plays in an increasingly changing and AI-driven world, and how skills such as self and peer assessment can be developed within the classroom.
- Module 1: A brief introduction to assessment theory
- Module 2: Constructing and implementing a successful assessment strategy
- Module 3: Designing and asking effective questions
- Module 4: Collecting and critically interpreting assessment data
- Module 5: Optimising feedback for learners
- Module 6: Metacognition, self and peer-assessment
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