EUN122 What we've done so far (Week 5)

In week 1 we watched the Rationale of the Australian Curriculum subject English. Which one of the three assessment principles was a focus of this rationale?

• Validity

• Reliability

• Equity

ACARA provide Achievement Standards for teachers, students and parents to understand what satisfactory achievement looks like at each year level. To help teachers write criteria, QCAA has developed ..... based on these Achievement Standards

• Standard Elaborations

• Achievement Indicators

• Progression Tables

• Marky McMarkface

In education we love a good acronym. When talking about assessment, what does AfL stand for?

• Australian Football League

• Assessment Forever Love

• Assessment For Learning

• Assessment Follows Learning

In the week 2 readings some great conundrums of assessment in subject English were presented in the papers by Marshall (2004 and 2011). What is the English skill that is very difficult to mark?

• Spelling

• Punctuation

• Grammar

• Good writing

When considering your AfL approach, for it to be successful a teacher needs to start with:

• Diagnostic assessment

• Learning Intentions

• Formative Assessment

• Success Criteria

You are a teacher who is starting a new unit today on media representations of topical issues. Once the students are settled, they've discussed the learning intentions and success criteria, you now get them work in groups to write down all of the places where they get their 'news' from. Then where their parents or family members get their 'news' from. You then have students link any sources that are similar and write what makes them similar (modality, ownership etc). You walk around the room while students are completing this activity taking notes and asking probing questions. You know at the end of this lesson you will continue to develop this mind map with other themes such as left/right/center leaning etc. This is an example of:

• Diagnostic assessment

• Formative assessment

• Summative assessment

• Standardised assessment

Considering the last scenario.... The principle that is privileged is

• Validity

• Reliability

• Equity

Why did you choose that principle?

Feedback is important. The most impactful way to give feedback is to give students BOTH a numerical result (or grade) and written feedback on what they've done well and how to improve.

• True

• False

Using paddle pop sticks to call on students to answer a question is an example of:

• A way to have classroom injuries

• hands-down response strategy

• Formative assessment

• Summative assessment