Directions for Assessment in New Zealand: Developing Students' Assessment Capabilities

Résumé du livre

The purpose of this paper is to provide broad advice to the Ministry of Education to guide and inform the design of new and improved strategies, policies, and plans for assessment. The central premise of this paper is that all young people should be educated in ways that develop their capacity to assess their own learning. Students who have well-developed assessment capabilities are able and motivated to access, interpret, and use information from quality assessment in ways that affirm or further their learning. In placing students at the centre of assessment practice, our advice in this paper is consistent with the best of current thinking, including that behind 'assessment for learning', the use of assessment feedback to enhance teaching and learning, and professional learning designed to assist teachers to enhance their students' assessment capabilities. Table of contents: * Background * Overview * New directions for assessment * The New Zealand context * Student assessment capability * Teacher and school leader assessment capability * Parent, board, teacher educator, and central agency assessment capability * Key concepts * Systems alignment * Recommendations.