Tag: assessment
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Literacy assessment: Who wants to know what, and why?
By Emerita Professor Heather Fehring, School of Education, RMIT University The assessment of literacy achievements is important to all levels of the educational community. From the individual student in the local school, to the Australian Government, the diverse range of literacy assessment expectations provides demanding challenges. At the centre of the issue: Students ask: Am…
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Child-friendly testing for young learners
Verissimo Toste, an Oxford teacher trainer, looks at how you can make testing a child-friendly experience for your young learners, and useful for you. “Testing young learners? Really? Seriously? Why?” That’s usually my reaction when I hear teachers talking about testing young learners. “So, how do you decide what to teach them? How do you know how to teach…
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The importance of reading choices
Choice in reading materials builds engagement and assists students to have a voice in what they want to learn. To ensure choice, teachers need to have a well-organised classroom library of cognitively appropriate print and digital books including many different topics, genres and text types. Book choice must be at each student’s independent reading level…