The primary purpose of assessment is to improve students’ learning, as both student and teacher respond to the information that it provides. Information is needed about what knowledge, understanding, or skills students need. By finding out what students currently know, understand, and can do, any gap between the two can be made apparent.
Assessment literacy is:
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These resources may be used to help teachers develop assessment literacy:
Putting faces on the school targets
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Questions to help analyse interim OTJ data
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Teaching as inquiry template for target students
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Using the Ministry of Education documents to support target students
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What students need to know about assessment
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Assessment and data analysis - a process
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