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Assessment Of, For, As Learning

There are three types of classroom assessment: assessment for learning, assessment as learning, and assessment of learning. Assessment for learning involves teachers using formative assessments to understand what students know and are able to do. Assessment as learning focuses on students reflecting on their own learning through self-assessment. Assessment of learning refers to strategies to determine if students have met curriculum goals and standards through summative assessments.

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Assessment Of, For, As Learning

There are three types of classroom assessment: assessment for learning, assessment as learning, and assessment of learning. Assessment for learning involves teachers using formative assessments to understand what students know and are able to do. Assessment as learning focuses on students reflecting on their own learning through self-assessment. Assessment of learning refers to strategies to determine if students have met curriculum goals and standards through summative assessments.

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Assessment for, as, and of learning

There are three distinct but inter-related purposes for classroom assessment:
assessment for learning, assessment as learning, and assessment of learning.

Assessment for Learning


In assessment for learning, teachers use assessment as a research tool to find out as
much as they can about what their students know and are able to do, as well what presumptions
and misunderstandings they may have. Teachers also use assessment for learning to boost
student's motivation and commitment to learning. [5]. Examples of 21st century assessment for
learning tools, which include both diagnostic tests and formative assessments, are eportfolios,
teacher observations, class discussions, and works in progress with comments, think-pair-share,
journals, observation checklists, concept maps, and rubrics.

Group project with regular feedback as assessment for learning

Assessment as Learning
Assessment as learning focuses on students and emphasizes assessment as a process of
metacognition. Assessment as learning comes from the constructivist idea that learning is an
active process that occurs when students interact with new ideas. It is based on research about
how learning occurs and is characterized by students reflecting on their own learning and making
adaptations, adjustments, and changes to their thinking. [5]. Examples of 21st Century
assessment as learning tools include self-assessments, peer assessments, student-teacher
conferences, teacher observations with feedback and interim product analysis. [6]

Class presentation with self-assessment as assessment as learning

Assessment of Learning
Assessment of learning refers to strategies intended to corroborate what students know,
show whether or not they have met curriculum outcomes or the goals of their individualized
programs, or to confirm ability and make decisions about student's future programs or
placements. It is intended to show evidence of achievement to other educators, parents, students
themselves, and sometimes outside groups (e.g., educational institutions). [5]. Examples of 21st
Century Assessment of Learning tools are eportfolios, with "best piece" samples to show
progress, open-ended response questions, descriptions of observations in Science experiments,
historical role-playing arguments about the impact of decisions on current life, the writing process
applied to poetry, long-term projects and problem-based reports. [7]

unit test as assessment of learning

Current or traditional assessment practices are teacher focused, done with tests, quizzes
and worksheets, completed outside of the learning and teaching activities and are done at the
end of the learning activity for grading purposes. [8] Most of these tools would be considered as
Assessment "of" learning. 21st Century assessment tools will emphasize assessment "as" and
assessment "for" learning tools.

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