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Assess and give feedback to learners
This Area of Activity is about how you use assessment and feedback to foster and encourage learning, assess
progress and make judgments about your students' learning during and on completion of their study with
you. The assessment you undertake may be formative or summative, formal or informal. Feedback can be
face to face, written through annotating students work, or through using technologies such as online
quizzes. For example, you might:
• make judgments about student work in tutorials, lab-based settings and supervision sessions;
• give formative feedback in face-to-face and online settings (through a discussion forum or via
automated feedback you created within an quiz);
• use assessments that support the learning outcomes;
• select appropriate assessments for the student profile.
Introduction
Describe the main types of formative and/or summative assessment that you use with
learners, and whether it is formal or informal? (≤ 100 words)
Main section (600 words).
Use the following headings as guidance (note that not all may be relevant to your role)
• How and why you choose the particular approaches and methods you employ, insofar
as this was your own decision.
• How you ensure your assessments are valid indicators of what you want your students
to learn, that your marking is reliable and the standards you set are appropriate.
• How you give feedback to learners.
• How you ensure the feedback you give learners helps them to improve their
understanding of the subject or their performance and development as learners.
• Which elements of Core Knowledge you utilised, how and why?
• Which Professional Values you applied, how and why?
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This Area of Activity is about how you use assessment and feedback to foster and encourage learning, assess
progress and make judgments about your students' learning during and on completion of their study with
you. The assessment you undertake may be formative or summative, formal or informal. Feedback can be
face to face, written through annotating students work, or through using technologies such as online
quizzes. For example, you might:
• make judgments about student work in tutorials, lab-based settings and supervision sessions;
• give formative feedback in face-to-face and online settings (through a discussion forum or via
automated feedback you created within an quiz);
• use assessments that support the learning outcomes;
• select appropriate assessments for the student profile.
Introduction
Describe the main types of formative and/or summative assessment that you use with
learners, and whether it is formal or informal? (≤ 100 words)
Main section (600 words).
Use the following headings as guidance (note that not all may be relevant to your role)
• How and why you choose the particular approaches and methods you employ, insofar
as this was your own decision.
• How you ensure your assessments are valid indicators of what you want your students
to learn, that your marking is reliable and the standards you set are appropriate.
• How you give feedback to learners.
• How you ensure the feedback you give learners helps them to improve their
understanding of the subject or their performance and development as learners.
• Which elements of Core Knowledge you utilised, how and why?
• Which Professional Values you applied, how and why?
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