Review a range of different assessment methods available and explain the ones you would use for your subject area. Evaluate the use of assessment methods in different contexts, including reference to initial assessment. Justify the types of assess

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Unit 1 PTTLS

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Question 7

Review a range of different assessment methods available and explain the ones you would use for your subject area. Evaluate the use of assessment methods in different contexts, including reference to initial assessment. Justify the types of assessment records you would complete and explain why.

 

Initial, Formative and Summative assessment are all equally important, not only for the student, but also the tutor. Without an initial assessment, a teacher will not be able to ascertain their student’s abilities or previous subject knowledge. Initial assessment is imperative for considering the pupils individual needs. (QDCA 2009)

Formative is a continual form of assessment such as assignments, individual or group projects, observation and even peer and self-assessment. Geoff Petty (1998) believes assessment can inspire and motivate students, thus providing them and us with feedback that is seen as essential in prompting corrective help. When using Formative assessment, the importance is not the score the student achieves, but what the student has learnt, thus allowing the teacher to determine what to teach next whilst working towards a final summative assessment.

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When setting assessments, we have to take differentiation into account and set different types of assessments so as not to disadvantage a section of the class. In many schools ‘Norm-referenced’ assessments take place such as Grammar entrance exams when a large number of individuals are involved in taking the assessment, by comparing the individual students with each other and rewarding the best, we can essentially be failing a large percentage of our students as teachers, sometimes as much as 30 to 40%. On a day to day basis it may be better to use a criterion based assessment method ...

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