Assessing Learners in Education and Training. B

Portfolio of teaching evidence
Assessment types used
- Diagnostic assessment
o Guroo assessment: this assessment is used to assess the learner’s needs over the whole subject area.
o EDI checker: this assessment is used to assess the learner’s needs over the whole subject area.

- Formative assessment: this is characterised as assessment for learning.
o Formal letter: this example assessment is used to assess the learner’s needs over the subject area; I often use peer and self-assessment.  
o Informal email: this example assessment is used to assess the learner’s needs over the subject area; I often use peer and self-assessment.  
o Maths questions: this example assessment is used to assess the learner’s needs over the subject area; I often use peer and self-assessment.  
o Mock test: this example assessment is used to assess the learner’s needs over the subject area.


- Summative assessment: this is characterised as assessment of learning.
o EDI Exam: this is an external assessment used to give a grade to the learner; this assessment type assesses the whole of the subject area.

All learners are given verbal and in most cases written feedback on all their assessments as soon as possible after the event, the learner is also given the chance to put his point of view across during the feedback process. Unfortunately the final exam is the assessment that takes time to get the results. I have always discussed how the learner thinks they have done on their exam; this has given me a very rough indication on how they have assessed their learning.

Other assessment types used but not evidenced
- Formative assessment
o Walking around the class looking and commenting on their progress.
o Q&A
o Discussions
o Games
o Quizzes