Assessing and recording

Assessing

Assessing is the process of collecting, analysing and recording information about student progress towards achievement of syllabus outcomes. An important purpose of assessment is to design appropriate learning programs for all students. The principles below underpin effective assessment.

• Assessment is integral to teaching and learning. It should be based on the learning outcomes in talking, listening, reading and writing that specify what students know, understand and are able to do with language.
• A variety of assessment strategies and contexts should be used to give students opportunities to demonstrate, in an authentic manner, what they know and understand about language as well as what they can do.
• Assessment procedures should relate to the knowledge and skills that are taught within the school program, and to the syllabus outcomes.
• Assessment must be reliable in that it consistently produces results that accurately reflect the student's ability to perform that task. It must be valid in that it actually measures what it is intended to measure.

Page 87, English K–6 Syllabus

Recording assessment information

Early literacy online incorporates example pro formas that can be used to record assessment data.

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From Early literacy online Module 1

Early Stage 1

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Stage 1

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From Early literacy online Module 4

Reading behaviours: Early Stage 1 and Stage 1

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From Early literacy online Module 7

Example pro formas

Early Stage 1

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Stage 1

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Writing behaviours pro formas

Early Stage 1

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Stage 1

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