Pre-requisites

ED621 Ecology and Management of Learning Environments: Professional Experience 1B
A combination of 6 units from the student’s Major and Minor

Co-requisites

ED631 Curriculum, Assessment and Data: School Observation (5 days)

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, the student will be able to:

• Apply comprehensive knowledge of effective assessment theory and research to design diagnostic, formative and summative assessment tasks that can be used to assess students’ learning in Years 7-12

• Apply understanding of the purpose of providing timely and appropriate feedback to students about their learning to analyse student achievement against rubrics and standards and construct high quality feedback

• Interpret students’ assessment data and apply understanding of assessment moderation to make consistent and comparable judgements of students learning for feedback, recording and reporting purposes and for modifying teaching practices

• Use a range of strategies to create accurate and reliable records of student achievement and to articulate student achievement and learning to report to students and parents/carers

Unit Description

This unit complements ES620 Secondary Specialisation 1: Curriculum and Pedagogy and expands on ED631 Curriculum, Assessment and Data: School Observation (5 days) by exploring various strategies that you can use to sample thinking, understanding and skill competence of your students on the topics being taught as part of your specialised learning area. The unit will explore various strategies for probing understanding, how to interpret data and importantly how to provide effective (formative) feedback for promoting further learning in the teaching/learning cycle and modify teaching practices. The unit will also cover common summative assessment used in your specialist area and how to report achievements in reports to parents/carers.

Students will be assigned an experienced teacher in their specialist area to mentor them in the processes of assessment in their specialist area, particularly in practising assessment and moderation.

APST 5: Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning APST 4:5 Demonstrate a capacity to interpret student assessment to evaluate student learning and modify teaching practices

Topics

• Integrating assessment in the learning task – Authentic assessment tasks
• Assessment for Learning – ways to sample understanding during the information and initial response phases of a topic
• Constructing Rubrics
• Providing meaningful feedback
• Assessment as learning - How to build in self- and peer-assessment into tasks
• Assessment of learning - Test and exam construction
• Interpreting students’ assessment data
• Moderation processes for making consistent and comparable judgements of students’ learning
• Using the data to inform future teaching practices and make modifications to practices
• Strategies for recording students’ achievements – mark books
• Reporting - sample reports used by schools
• LMS and continuous reporting
• Working with VCAA advice to construct a SAC

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Unit offerings

Face to face: Semester 1, 2025 (Every 2nd Year (Odd), Semester 1)

Please note

The Unit Offerings listed above are a guide only and the timetable for any year is the final authority. The College may vary offerings based on demand, regulatory requirements, continual improvement processes or other conditions.

This unit may be available in different modes of delivery i.e. online and face-to-face as listed above. The unit content will not differ between these modes of delivery. There will possibly be a difference in the schedule and/or the prescribed assessment tasks, however both will cover and assess the same content.