Assessment for Improvement Program
Assessment literacy is a major Component of the Plan for Government School’s 2004-2007. The objective is to ensure that all students achieve the standards expected of them at key stages of schooling.
- Through the Assessment for Improvement Program, resources and professional learning have been developed to assist schools and teachers to collect, analyse and use student performance information for improvement purposes. The outcomes of this program are that:Teachers use quality assessments information to make decisions about improving the standards of each student.
- Schools and teachers use judgements based on analyses of classroom and system-wide assessments to evaluate programs, set targets for improvement and make changes to programs as necessary.
- Caregivers, students and teachers are provided with quality information about student progress and achievement.
District Office Curriculum Teams can assist schools to implement the Assessment for Improvement Program.
Assessment Literacy Project Manager
Suzanne Collins
Phone: 9264 4108
Suzanne.Collins@det.wa.edu.au
Quality Assessment
The MSE, MSE9 and WALNA programs monitor student learning with the fundamental intention of promoting learning and improving achievement.
It does this by collecting, analysing and reporting student achievement data and then reflecting on the meaning and consequence of that information. It is through this process of reflection that these programs link to the Department's core intention of improving student learning.
Assessing Students' Performance
MSE has produced a suite of publications that help teachers focus on the meaning and consequence of assessment information. They assist teachers to
- understand the data from system level assessments like MSE, MSE9 and WALNA
- develop the capacity to reflect on assessment processes
- understand the frameworks which guide teaching and assessment
- develop and design on-going and purposeful classroom assessment that is embedded in all good teaching practice
- Make consistent and comparable judgements of student performance of the outcomes
- Use information about student achievement to improve learning and teaching
Your District Office Curriculum Team can provide workshops on WALNA Teachers' Analysis and Assessing Students. Hard copies of the MSE publications that accompany this professional learning can be ordered through the program or pdf versions can be downloaded.