Investigation
See if some of your colleagues would like to work with you on this investigation.
- List the different assessment tools and processes you use and describe their purposes.
- Which assessment results do you keep records of, and what use is made of these records?
- Evaluate your current assessment practice from the point of view of the needs of bilingual Pasifika students.
- Brainstorm changes in assessment practices that would better support the long-term learning progress of your bilingual Pasifika students.
- Plan and implement one change that is intended to meet an identified need of your Pasifika bilingual learners, and observe whether this change has the desired results.
Other useful assessment information
- The TKI assessment community is a comprehensive resource on all aspects of assessment and includes an online workshop on assessment for schools, called Professional Learning Communities in Schools.
- TKI's Literacy and Numeracy site has a section on assessment.
- The National Education Monitoring Project includes examples of assessment tasks in its published reports and also makes previous assessment tasks available in packs for teachers to use.
