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Some musings about the links between formative assessment and the development of key competencies

Author(s): Chris Joyce

Using assessment information formatively to contribute to teaching skills and knowledge that underpin the key competencies. The example used is from a study of 600 student...

| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Formative assessment and the ARB website

Author(s): Jonathan Fisher

Outline of changes to the ARB website, designed to improve finding relevant and useful resources and their supporting information. Outlines components of formative assessment that are...

| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Formative assessment and the professional development of teachers: Are we focusing on what is important?

Research suggests that teachers need a great deal of professional support if they are to acquire and use new knowledge and skills, but within the area of formative assessment teachers have often been...

| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Using achievement information to raise student achievement

Author(s): Helen Timperley

Recent research on school improvement indicates that schools can lift student achievement by using achievement information to work out how to modify their programmes. Robertson Rd School worked...

| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Teacher perceptions of the use and value of formative assessment in secondary English programmes

The significance of formative assessment strategies for student learning has been summed up by Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam in their review of all research data from 1988 to 1998. Twenty English...

| Year published: 2000 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Drawing and labelling: New ways of answering questions on the Assessment Resource Banks

| Year published: 2021 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text:

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Thinking about assessment from an end-to-end perspective

| Year published: 2022 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Formative assessment in practice: Helping change what’s inside the box

The implementation of best practice models for assessment begins with teachers who are working in their own classes to integrate strategies into their teaching context. The effect of best practice...

| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Issues of culture and assessment in New Zealand education pertaining to Māori students

Author(s): Mere Berryman, Russell Bishop

Assessment, much like learning, is interactive, social and contextual. New information and experience is understood and assimilated in relation to prior knowledge and experiences. While it is...