assessment for fun and profit
I'm sure I am not alone amongst Scottish educators in wondering what assessment is going to look like in coming sessions. Having watched this Teachers' TV video at the weekend, I felt inspired to try an assessment activity that might better reflect the principals of assessment in CfE. It wasn't a big deal, but the outcome was interesting enough to prompt this rare blog post! Today was the last lesson for my S2 class on a money topic which included wages, VAT and exchange rates. I told the class that the aim of the lesson was for them to produce evidence of what they had learned during the topic, then asked them how they thought they might do that. The first response was "a test" (loud boos from classmates!). Someone else suggested making posters, and another pupil suggested making up questions for the Activote pods, which they would then answer. We settled on making posters. I have done this many times before as a way of allowing a class to reflect u