Comments on: Assessment for fun and profit

By: The Best Class Ever at Jonesieblog

The Best Class Ever at Jonesieblog — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:39:22 +0000

[...] supports Learning?Curriculum for Excellence in East Lothian » Approaches to Assessment 2 on Assessment for fun and profit What I'm [...]

By: Curriculum for Excellence in East Lothian » Approaches to Assessment 2

Curriculum for Excellence in East Lothian » Approaches to Assessment 2 — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:33:26 +0000

[...] happened upon Robert Jones’ blog post about Assessment recently. He used Curriculum for Excellence assessment principles to learn how his [...]

By: Curriculum for Excellence in East Lothian » Approaches to Assessment

Curriculum for Excellence in East Lothian » Approaches to Assessment — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:59:34 +0000

[...] blog, as has Robert Jones, PT Maths at North Berwick High School. He kindly agreed to share his most recent post on assessment on here: “I’m sure I am not alone amongst Scottish educators in wondering what assessment [...]

By: fearghal

fearghal — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:19:53 +0000

Hey Robert,

Your post never made it onto the CfE blog…do you mind if I go ahead and add it?

Hey Hilery, do you mind if I add your post to the CfE Blog too? – I think this is a really useful discussion…

Fearghal

By: Formative Assessment works! « Hilery Williams

Formative Assessment works! « Hilery Williams — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:09:55 +0000

[...] happened upon Robert Jones’ blog post about Assessment recently. He used Curriculum for Excellence assessment principles to [...]

By: Hilery Williams

Hilery Williams — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:40:18 +0000

This is so interesting.
I have done a similar exercise at a primary school.
Last term I had been working with a group of 10 children whose poor working memory hinders them from learning as well as they might.
I returned yesterday, after a 3 week break and asked them to capture their learning. Like you, I asked them to create a poster (they chose to use Comic Life) as an assessment exercise. I, too, was very explicit, telling them this was for me to learn to do my job better.
Because it was a small group I was able to note some of the comments. These I found to be even more enlightening than the finished products.
I now feel better equipped to teach this another time. I think the children themselves were surprised at how much they were able to recall in a collaborative atmosphere.
And this was the meta-point: they had an enhanced awareness of the skills many people use to remember information. The fact that they remembered and were applying some of the thinking they had done prior to the spring holiday showed them that they could improve their memories. Two for the price of one!

By: l lewis

l lewis — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:47:58 +0000

Sounds like a successful lesson. I wonder if the conversations about assessment would have been the same if you had produced a microphone or dictaphone?

By: fearghal

fearghal — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:49:51 +0000

Thanks for this post – very interesting!

This highlights the benefits, and challenges, of approaching assessment in this way.

How would you feel about posting this on the CfE blog…? I’ll make you an author just in case…

By: David Gilmour

David Gilmour — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:17:33 +0000

Thanks for this, it’s useful to know where the problem areas are emerging at this early stage so that hopefully we can find ways to work round them.

By: jonesieboy

jonesieboy — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:22:36 +0000

Photos and text are good, but how do I capture the conversations? Now I know that the conversations have real formative benefit, but they also provide me with lots of information that I lose very quickly, given my poor short-term memory! I could video and record audio, but I’m not sure how I would store that in a manageable way. I guess I should give that job to the learners.