Assessment Video Library
These video resources show what assessment for learning and assessment as learning ‘look like’ in the classroom, and how teachers embed these practices in their daily interactions with students to help them become independent, self-monitoring learners. We sincerely thank all those educators and students who have provided us with windows into their thinking and practice.
Learning Goals and Success Criteria
Learning goals and success criteria are critical pieces of information students need to be successful learners. Students and teachers must hold a common understanding of what is to be learned, and what successful achievement looks like. With explicit goals and criteria, students have the beginnings of what they need to become independent, self-monitoring learners.
Questioning
Questioning enables teachers to explore students’ thinking while they are learning, so that we can respond to their needs in a timely way. Effective questioning makes students’ thinking visible so that we can find out what they know, and what they still need to learn.
Descriptive Feedback
Feedback is information linked to success criteria students and teachers share during learning so that students can close the gap between their current level of performance and the learning goals.
Self-Assessment
Self assessment is essential to learning. It leads to learning that cannot be achieved otherwise, and helps students become independent learners. When peer and self assessing, students gather information about their learning; reflect on how well they are learning; and plan next steps to improve their learning.