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Assessment for learning
With recent advances in assessment systems and
technology, schools are swimming in data. The challenge for
schools is to make sense of all the numbers by asking effective
questions and using the answers to improve practice. Edison's
Assessment for Learning design provides schools with key tools
for improved data driven decision making. Edison's professional
development helps school leaders and teachers develop skills
in framing good questions, organising student performance
data and putting findings into action.
Data-driven decision making is fundamental to
school transformation: having ready access to data that really
shows how a student is doing helps communication between staff,
students and parents/carers. Edison's Diagnostics tools give
teachers a way of providing regular, automatic formative assessment
of their students and are an essential part of an effective
assessment strategy. The setting of tests, administration
and marking are all dealt with automatically by the software,
leaving the teachers free to concentrate on interpreting the
results and taking appropriate action.
To provide a genuinely significant gauge of
progress, our Diagnostics tools are measured against full-year
National Curriculum objectives, helping teachers:
- Identify achievement opportunities
- Inform teaching for learning
- Monitor student success
- Maintain teacher/student accountability
- Manage 'real-time' learning progress against
National Curriculum standards
The Diagnostics system tests poses questions
that are carefully matched to national curriculum standards
and assessments, and delivers well-designed reports that provide
teachers with a quick way to determine the proficiency of
students and classes, with individual strands and objectives,
and an intuitive drill-down approach to detailing information.
The Diagnostics system provides teaching notes for every question,
allowing teachers to turn the information derived the data
into action in the classroom.
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