1.1 Explain The Importance Of Assessment For Learning Research

Assessment for learning informs and promotes the achievement of all pupils, as it encourages them to take responsibility for their own learning. It focuses on the learning process and how to improve a child’s academic progression, finding out where pupils are within a learning range, where they need to go and how best to get them there. Lots of different assessment for learning strategies can be used to help pupils in their learning, and these can be adopted by teachers to gain an understanding of what has been achieved and what steps should be taken next in order to progress learning forward.

Examples of characteristics of assessment for learning are:-

• To make sure that pupils are actively involved in lessons from the very start and they are made aware of what the learning objectives are for that session and what they are expected to learn.
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• In numeracy I will identify with a child where they might have gone wrong with working out the answer to a number sentence (it’s often switching the counting from 10s to units or reading + instead of -) and working through one with them. If they get a subsequent one wrong I ask them to think about what went wrong the last time and think about what they need to check.
• We often, with input from the class, come up with actions to remember success criteria, and in particular to help them remember the key features for a certain type of writing such as a recount or character profile. By going through these at the beginning of each session it helps the children to remember what they need to include in their writing in order to achieve the learning