Unit name | Assessment in Schools |
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Unit code | EDUCM0037 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
Unit director | Professor. Rosamund Sutherland |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Education |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit considers the relationship between teaching and assessment in schools and examines critically recent and current developments in assessment. It will consider the benefits and costs of various methods of assessment in school and study the role of assessment in the National Curriculum of the UK and within other school cultures. The key issues in assessment as a formative tool to support learning will be examined.
The Unit Aims:
By the end of this unit students will be able to demonstrate that they:
Sessions will be of two types: those involving activities using reading and other source material to examine key current issues in assessment in schools, and those in which course participants lead seminars on a topic of their choice. These will be guided by discussion between participants and the course tutor. A tutorial is offered for discussion of the assignment.
Contact Hours
20 hours
Formative & Summative assessment:
Participants will lead a seminar (formative assessment) and then submit a written account, of 4000 words (summative assesment), of their research topic. This will be informed by discussion during the seminar and wider reading. There will therefore be opportunities for formative assessment, modelling ideas presented in the unit’s content.
Key readings will be determined by the topic being investigated. This will include recommendations from relevant academic journals giving a sense of historical developments in thinking about assessment in the UK.