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English and ICTUsing ICT for reflection – Using ICT for teacher assessment
In developing students’ understanding, skills and confidence in assessment, we stress how assessment of and through talk are both important. Assessment of talk provides information on the child’s skills and understanding in speaking and listening whereas assessment through talk enables a teacher to gather evidence of a child’s understanding. Students often prefer to rely on children’s writing as evidence of their learning and so we feel it is important to draw their attention to opportunities to assess learning which do not depend upon the child’s ability to write. For all teachers, but particularly students, the collection of such information is challenging, given the transient nature of talk and the difficulties of focusing on individuals or a specific group within a busy classroom setting. We therefore encourage students to identify within their planning opportunities to record oral work and then to use their recording to review the children’s success in meeting the learning objective as well as using recordings of individuals over a series of different sessions to provide a more general formative assessment of children and their skills and confidence in speaking and listening. Activity summary – Using ICT in assessment
- Discuss issues to be considered in preparing to use ICT to record for assessment purposes.
- View examples of children’s talk.
- Consider impact of recording on children’s performance.
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In helping students to plan to record and assess talk and to assess learning through talk, we have used discussion of scenarios as follows:
You want to assess;
- Y7 children’s understanding of and response to the opening scene of Macbeth
- Y4 children’s understanding of forces through their talk
- Y1 children’s ability to listen and respond to others’ ideas.
For each example discuss what you will need to consider prior to the session when you will make the recording. |
We expect the students to identify the importance of deciding in advance the following:
- the means of recording
- the activity
- the focus – which children & when
- how this will be introduced to the children
- how the recording will be used
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We also suggest how a series of records of a children’s oral work in different situations may be used to provide a broader assessment of their skills in speaking and listening. This process is modelled using http://www.ncaction.org.uk/search/index.htm
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It is also important that students are aware of the disadvantages of recording, in particular the impact of recording on the performance of some children. Reflecting on their own experiences of being recorded teaching will help them to appreciate the possible negative impact on the children’s confidence and fluency.
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