' Assessment for learning is the process of seeking and interpreting evidence for use by learners and their teachers to decide where the learners are in their learning, where they need to go and how best to get there. '- Assessment Reform Group 2002
Useful Assessment Websites
In this section, there are links to a range of national assessment resources.
East Riding of Yorkshire Local Authority endorses the following websites for assessment:
General Assessment Links
 AAIA: Association for Achievement and Improvement through Assessment
'Using Assessment for Enhancing Learning - a practical guide'
ISBN 0-9550677-1-5
Recommended since it briefly covers the main elements of assessment:
- Leading and managing assessment;
- Ongoing assessment;
- Planning;
- Feedback on Learning;
- Using data and other information to promote learning;
- Reporting to parents and carers;
- Transfer and Transition.
(This replaces the previous AAIA publication 'Teacher Assessment in Action' 1996)
Copies of the leaflet were sent into schools in Spring 2002, but they are available in electronic form and can be downloaded.
Becta website
Practical advice, tools and services for leadership teams, teaching staff, technical staff and support providers in schools.
The DfES Website
The Department for Education and Skills was established with the purpose of creating opportunity, releasing potential and achieving excellence for all.
The Standards Site
The Assessment Reform Group has produced a leaflet called 'Assessment for Learning: 10 Principles'
Copies of the leaflet were sent into schools in Spring 2002, but they are available in electronic form and can be downloaded.
QCA
'Assessment and Reporting Arrangements'
Information for SATs at the end of each Key Stage.
Report-Writing Software
Report Rascal
Report Rascal is a program to assist in the production of primary school reports.
Recommended Assessment Publications/Resources
Shirley Clarke Publications:
Shirley Clarke's publications are highly recommended. Her books are written in a 'teacher-friendly' style with practical tips and strategies
for formative assessment in action. She presents her work at national and international conferences.
Hodder Headline
Headline was founded in 1986 and five years later won the prestigious Publisher of the Year Award. The following year, Headline acquired Hodder & Stoughton to form Hodder Headline Plc. Now it is one of the fastest-growing consumer book publishers in Britain with an outstanding track record in publishing both fiction and non-fiction.
'Targeting Assessment in the Primary Classroom'
1999 2001
ISBN 0-340-72531-1
'Unlocking Formative Assessment'
ISBN 0-340-80126-3
'Enriching Feedback'
2003
ISBN 0-340-87258-6
'Formative Assessment in Action'
2005
ISBN 0-340-90782-7
'Formative Assessment in the Secondary Classroom'
2005
ISBN 0-340-88766-4
Assessment Reform Group Publications:
Publications by Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam.
The work of Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam has been widely acknowledged in the field of assessment for learning.
Their research findings, and their work with the Assessment Reform Group, have had a significant impact on assessment, with both KS2 and KS3
Strategy materials acknowledging its importance, and changes to national statutory assessment reflecting this, particularly at KS1.
Assessment Reform Group website
The aim of the Assessment Reform Group (ARG) is to ensure that assessment policy and practice at all levels takes account of relevant research evidence. In pursuit of this aim the main targets for the Group's activity are policy-makers in government and its agencies. It also works closely with teachers, teacher organisations and local education authority staff to advance understanding of the roles, purposes and impacts of assessment. 'Formative Assessment in Action'
2005
ISBN 0-340-90782-7
Publications by Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam, King's College London: 'Inside the Black Box - Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment'
1998
ISBN 1-871984-68-8 'Assessment for Learning - Beyond the Black Box'
1999
ISBN 085603-042-2 'Working inside the Black Box - Assessment for Learning in the Classroom'
2002
ISBN 1-871984-39-4 'Testing, Motivation and Learning'
ISBN 085603-046-5
Ruth Sutton Publications:
Ruth Sutton website
Education consultancy and publications.
'Assessment for Learning'
1995
ISBN 0-9523871-1-5
'School Self Review - A Practical Approach'
1995
ISBN 0-9523871-0-7
'The Learning School'
1997
ISBN 0-9523871-2-3
'School Quality Matters - A Practical Introduction to Qualitative School Self-review'
1998
ISBN 09523871-3-1
'Primary to Secondary - Overcoming the Muddle in the Middle'
2000
ISBN 0-9523871-5-8
Birmingham City Council Education Service:
For more information about their publications contact BASS Publication Services on 0121 303 8081 or visit the following website:
National Assessment Agency:
The National Assessment Agency website
The National Assessment Agency (NAA) was launched in April 2004 to develop and deliver high-quality national curriculum tests and supervise the delivery and modernisation of GCSE and A level examinations.
Optional test materials are also available from the NAA.
'Building a Picture of What Children Can Do'
2004
ISBN 1-85838-676-4
Excellence and Enjoyment: Learning and Teaching in the Primary Years
(Professional Development Materials - blue booklets and accompanying video/CD Rom resources).
Assessment for Learning
'the term assessment refers to all those activities undertaken by teachers, and by their students in assessing themselves, which provide
information to be used as feedback to modify the teaching and learning activities in which they are engaged.'
(Black and Wiliam 1998)
There are two main purposes of assessment:
Assessment of learning (also known as summative assessment)
Assessment for Learning (also known as formative assessment)
(Primary National Strategy DfES 2004)
Within the National Strategy: plastic box containing the Learning and Teaching materials, the blue sections on Assessment enables schools to focus on areas for development and plan their CPD.
If you require information about any of these resources please contact:
Angela Jones, Foundation Stage Strategy Manager
Tel: (01482) 392467
Email: angela.jones@eastriding.gov.uk
Sarah Smallwood, Improvement Officer (Primary)
Tel: (01482) 392469
Email: sarah.smallwood@eastriding.gov.uk
John Seaman, Principal Improvement Adviser (Secondary)
Tel: (01482) 392410
Email: john.seaman@eastriding.gov.uk
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