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Considering assessment attributes: A self-catergorisation
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What is it: A snapshot of the different ways that
assessments can take place. The following grid can be used to help
interrogate your assessment needs and define your assessments overall
attributes. With consideration of the following you can be more
confident of your choices of assessment types. While looking at the grid
you could ask the following:
- Who will be doing the assessment?
- What is the nature of the assessment?
- When is the assessment intended to take place?
- What is the purpose of the assessment?
- Which sort of media could be used in the task?
- Who will design the assessment?
- What sort of feedback would be provided to students and when?
- How would the assessment be administered?
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When you have considered these areas you
might like to
visit
the examples collection to peruse some different types of assessment
tasks that could suit your circumstances. |
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Assessor
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Self assessment
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Peer assessment
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Teacher assessment
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Expert assessment
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Nature of assessment
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Assessment
of learning
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Assessment
for learning
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Assessment
as learning
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Timing
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Pre-learning
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During learning
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After learning
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Purpose
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Diagnostic assessment
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Formative assessment
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Summative assessment
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Media
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Text
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Graphics
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Audio
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Video, animation
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Designer
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Student- designed
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Negotiated
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Teacher-designed
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Feedback
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Quantitative feedback
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Mixed feedback
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Qualitative feedback
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Location
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Paper
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Electronic
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Online
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