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  • Support for early career teachers
  • Education Development Trust
  • Year 1: First half-term: assessment, feedback and questioning

    • Learning outcomes

    The intended outcomes of this activity are for you to:

    Learn that:

    • Effective assessment is critical to teaching because it provides teachers with information about pupils’ understanding and needs.
    • Good assessment helps teachers avoid being over-influenced by potentially misleading factors, such as how busy pupils appear.
    • Before using any assessment, teachers should be clear about the decision it will be used to support and be able to justify its use.
    • To be of value, teachers use information from assessments to inform the decisions they make; in turn, pupils must be able to act on feedback for it to have an effect.
    • High-quality feedback can be written or verbal; it is likely to be accurate and clear, encourage further effort, and provide specific guidance on how to improve.