Transcript FoC soft skills modules – Assessment As Learning

FoC soft skills modules –
Assessment As Learning
Peter Chalk
July 2009
Background References
• Alverno College
http://depts.alverno.edu/saal/essentials.html
• Assessment as learning, by Lorna Maxine Earl
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DbDEuqBsngC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=%22assessment+as+learning%22&source=bl&ots=Ia4M5k
Wosa&sig=ndIVOIYNFJWSloXKiPixK9qyqAw&hl=en&ei=lBtbSv3BHt6NjAfTrqgb&sa=X&oi
=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7
• London Met, Assessment Framework,
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/londonmet/library/c93087_3.pdf
Alverno College
• Student Assessment-as-Learning
• a process integral to learning
• involving observation and judgment of each
student's performance
• based on public criteria
• with self assessment
• with feedback for student improvement of
learning and faculty improvement of teaching
London Met Web Site
• ‘By giving thoughtful attention to assessment
design and implementation, tutors can enable
students, through their own close involvement
with assessment, to come to have a better
understanding of the subject being studied
and of their own learning, ("assessment as
learning").’
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/capd/resources/assessmentfra
mework/assessmentframework_home.cfm