Making overall teacher judgements using evidence from student work in technology
Published on Tuesday July 20, 2010
National Standards - not one day, not one test, not one classroom
This new paper, recently published by Brenda Weal and Selena Hinchco, discusses the use of evidence from student work in technology to inform overall teacher judgements for National Standards. This article is particularly important in highlighting the interconnectedness of the New Zealand Curriculum and the National Standards and the cross-curricular nature of the reading, writing and mathematics standards.
‘Just as it is not enough to use only one assessment tool, it is also not enough to just look for evidence within only the specific teaching sessions of reading, writing, and mathematics. How students use reading, writing and mathematics in other learning areas can and should provide evidence towards making an overall teacher judgment.’
The authors identify three stages that teachers may progress through as they come to terms with National Standards:
- OTJs are based solely on how students perform in reading, writing and mathematics lessons.
- OTJs will include some evidence from other curriculum learning areas.
- Teachers will plan across the curriculum for authentic opportunities for students to use reading, writing and mathematics knowledge and skills that will provide evidence for making defensible OTJs.