Assessment For Learning & Formative Assessment
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What do you know about Assessment for Learning?
AFL-Assessment for Leaning is the world's strongest Approach to learning that creates feedback which is then used to improve students' academic performance.
Students can become more involved in the learning process than any other method, and thus help them to gain more confidence in what they are expected to learn and their knowledge.
AFL involves students in becoming more active in their academic learning & helps them to think like a teacher. The main feature of AFL is that it aims to 'fill the gaps between a learner's current situation and where they want to be in their learning.
The strategies are directly linked with the improvement factor in the student's academic performance in examinations. Many of the researches show that these strategies help low-achieving students to enhance their time efficiency, knowledge for a particular topic, and quality of attempting questions.
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| From CCEA(2007) : Assessment For Learning guidance KS 1-2 by Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment. |
AFL and the relationship with Formative assessment
Assessment for Learning (AFL) is closely related to formative assessment because practices such as questioning every topic, providing feedback help, or shaping a student's ability to assess questions.
Assessment for Learning is also related to 'summative assessment' as it gradually prepares a student to compete in their academic examination (summative assessments) but the moral point of learning before the examination topic-wise, subject-wise, keyword-wise, and assessing questions of those topics (Formative Assessment) is associated with AFL.
Assessment for Learning is also related to 'summative assessment' as it gradually prepares a student to compete in their academic examination (summative assessments) but the moral point of learning before the examination topic-wise, subject-wise, keyword-wise, and assessing questions of those topics (Formative Assessment) is associated with AFL.
"Learners need endless feedback more than they need endless Teaching"
- Grant Wiggins
There are 5 common processes that take place in AFL (Assessment for Learning):- Questioning topics, sub-topics, keywords enable a student, with the of their teacher, to find out what level they are really at.
- The system(EaseToLearn: Reports & Analytics) provides feedback about how to improve their learning.
- Students will understand the correct theory, the correct answer of each topic, sub-topic with the help of our Self-Assessor.
- Students can become more independent in their learning, taking part in Assessment competitions, Quizzes, etc.
- Summative Assessments - This all learning via AFL program with the help of 'Formative Assessment' will gradually help to improve their Summative Assessment skills and Vice-Versa.
The theory behind Assessment for Learning
As John Hattie describes it, AFL helps in making knowledge & understanding in a 'more visible' manner. AFL helps learners to understand what excellence looks like & how they can improve their own work to reach that level.
According to John Hattie's seminal work on 'Visible Learning for Teachers(2011), Hattie ranked feedback strategies 10th out of 150 factors that bring about significant improvement in learner outcomes.
Black and Wiliam also argue that if teachers start using formative assessments as a part of their teaching, students can learn at approximately double the rate of their usual learning.
Metacognition & AFL:
Metacognition is a term that describes 'thinking about thinking' and supports the idea of self-assessment. Metacognition suggests that learners need to be able to reflect on their own learning, to understand how they learn best, and to re-interpret any new skills, or knowledge and conceptual understandings that they have acquired.
Learning more about : Theory of AssessmentBenefits of Assessment For Learning
There are 5 common processes that take place in AFL (Assessment for Learning):
- Questioning topics, sub-topics, keywords enable a student, with the of their teacher, to find out what level they are really at.
- The system(EaseToLearn: Reports & Analytics) provides feedback about how to improve their learning.
- Students will understand the correct theory, the correct answer of each topic, sub-topic with the help of our Self-Assessor.
- Students can become more independent in their learning, taking part in Assessment competitions, Quizzes, etc.
- Summative Assessments - This all learning via AFL program with the help of 'Formative Assessment' will gradually help to improve their Summative Assessment skills and Vice-Versa.
The theory behind Assessment for Learning
As John Hattie describes it, AFL helps in making knowledge & understanding in a 'more visible' manner. AFL helps learners to understand what excellence looks like & how they can improve their own work to reach that level.
According to John Hattie's seminal work on 'Visible Learning for Teachers(2011), Hattie ranked feedback strategies 10th out of 150 factors that bring about significant improvement in learner outcomes.
Black and Wiliam also argue that if teachers start using formative assessments as a part of their teaching, students can learn at approximately double the rate of their usual learning.
Metacognition & AFL:
Metacognition is a term that describes 'thinking about thinking' and supports the idea of self-assessment. Metacognition suggests that learners need to be able to reflect on their own learning, to understand how they learn best, and to re-interpret any new skills, or knowledge and conceptual understandings that they have acquired.
Learning more about : Theory of Assessment
Benefits of Assessment For Learning
AFL helps to create a sense of confidence to attempt every question of any sub-topic, keyword whether it's a test or academic qualification examination. This is an important quality for learners to develop. This much confidence will help them succeed in their professional or personal life.
AFL increases independence
AFL allows learners to become independent on their own way of learning. Students just have to follow the feedback given by their teachers or system(EaseToLearn) to find out their weak links. This kind of learning will give students a sort of independence to learn & assess anytime.
AFL allows learners to become independent on their own way of learning. Students just have to follow the feedback given by their teachers or system(EaseToLearn) to find out their weak links. This kind of learning will give students a sort of independence to learn & assess anytime.
#Note: EaseToLearn is providing a free platform where a student can easily assess their knowledge independently anytime, anywhere.
It boosts your quality of attempting the exams
AFL helps to create a sense of ease while attempting any question with confidence and a style of solving any question gracefully.
By doing the formative assessment, solving assessment of every topic, knowing feedbacks of your exercises. This result will shape the student to easily solve any question in any kind of examination.
#Note: EaseToLearn is providing a free platform where a student can easily assess their knowledge independently anytime, anywhere.
It boosts your quality of attempting the exams
AFL helps to create a sense of ease while attempting any question with confidence and a style of solving any question gracefully.
By doing the formative assessment, solving assessment of every topic, knowing feedbacks of your exercises. This result will shape the student to easily solve any question in any kind of examination.
Few Misconceptions about AFL(Assessment For Learning)
'Assessment and testing are the same things'
No, It is surely not. There are a lot of different ways to assess a student/learner. In Assessment, there is no ranking system. It is only based on a certain topic/subject/sub-topic which student wants to learn.
Any activity which checks how a student is learning is ' assessing' that student's learning. Information from these assessment activities is used to adapt teaching and learning approaches, which leads to improvement in their outcomes.
No, It is surely not. There are a lot of different ways to assess a student/learner. In Assessment, there is no ranking system. It is only based on a certain topic/subject/sub-topic which student wants to learn.
Any activity which checks how a student is learning is ' assessing' that student's learning. Information from these assessment activities is used to adapt teaching and learning approaches, which leads to improvement in their outcomes.
'Examinations are the only type of assessment that matter'
With Assessment for Learning, no student can get the idea of attempting questions within a given time. Assessment For Learning increases your efficiency to improve better for your academic examination.
Without Assessment For Learning, it is guaranteed that the student will lose his/her quality of attempting questions in any examination.
Without Assessment For Learning, it is guaranteed that the student will lose his/her quality of attempting questions in any examination.
'Work should always be given a grade or mark'
In some circumstances, a grade will be given as part of teacher feedback.
However, research indicates that learners will often just read the grade and ignore the comments. Whereas in AFL, proper feedback is provided to the students without any grade so that the student will not compare himself with anyone and concentrate only on him/herself to improve their lacking.
However, research indicates that learners will often just read the grade and ignore the comments. Whereas in AFL, proper feedback is provided to the students without any grade so that the student will not compare himself with anyone and concentrate only on him/herself to improve their lacking.
Self Assessor by EaseToLearn
After years of research in the study material, academic data, AI systems, EaseToLearn is providing an exclusive free platform for the student's 'Self Assessment'.
The program is totally designed on the basis of ' Assessment for Learning' where a student can create their own assessments by choosing any topic from our large pool of study materials, and assess themselves with our interface. The system will provide proper feedback on every single answer, the student will attempt.
The program is totally designed on the basis of ' Assessment for Learning' where a student can create their own assessments by choosing any topic from our large pool of study materials, and assess themselves with our interface. The system will provide proper feedback on every single answer, the student will attempt.
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Self Assessor is a formative assessment system that helps the student create their own assessment on any topic or keyword which the student has studied. Once the assessment is created, the student tries to answer questions in the assessment created by themselves from already acquired knowledge on that topic. Suppose the student does not know the answer to a question, the student can pause SELF ASSESSOR and search for correct answer either using SMART LEARNING which can be invoked at the question level itself, or taking help from books, teachers, the internet or friends. There are no time restrictions in SELF ASSESSOR.
#Note: There will be no ready answer. The student has to himself, put effort to search correct answer. This is long-lasting learning.
EaseToLearn is the quickest approach to easy & quick learning.
- It uses Assessment For learning (AFL) approach where the students learn only those areas which are not known to the student. This not only speeds up learning but also ensures accurate learning.
- Students become more involved in the learning process and from this gain confidence in what they are expected to learn and to what standard. They set up their own learning curve and speed.
- Students become more involved in the learning process and from this gain confidence in what they are expected to learn and to what standard. They set up their own learning curve and speed.
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