This learning module is designed for teachers at any career stage who are interested in developing their assessment literacy and embedding sustainable assessment practices in their classroom and the wider culture in their context. It presupposes some knowledge and experience regarding the two main types of assessment: assessment for learning (AfL) and assessment of learning (AoL), and a willingness to contribute to a professional learning community focussed on changing classroom assessment habits.

It addresses a number of Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST), including:

1.2.2 Structure teaching programs using research and collegial advice about how students learn.

3.6.2 Evaluate personal teaching and learning programs using evidence, including feedback from students and student assessment data, to inform planning.

5.1.2 Develop, select and use informal and formal, diagnostic, formative and summative assessment strategies to assess student learning.

5.4.2 Use student assessment data to analyse and evaluate student understanding of subject/content, identifying interventions and modifying teaching practice.

 Intended Learning Outcomes

 In engaging with the updates and the community discussion, participants will be able to:

1. develop an integrated understanding of modern assessment practice and contexts;
2. broaden their skills to design and incorporate assessment approaches and practices that enable learning;
3. describe and analyse assessment data to reflect on, synthesise and evaluate their teaching practice so as to modify and respond to student learning needs;
4. make expert judgements about student learning, drawing on evidence-based research.