Resources – Assessment and Moderation

Please click on the title of each resource to see a brief description, as well as the hyperlink to the resource.

Education Scotland

Graphic from Education Scotland of the Cycle

https://education.gov.scot/nih/Documents/moderation-cycle.pdf

The Moderation Hub is a virtual learning environment delivering career-long professional learning on all aspects of the moderation cycle. It provides:

Professional learning on moderation
An in-depth look at each step of the moderation cycle
A one-stop-shop for key documentation

https://glowscotland.sharepoint.com/sites/PLC/moderationhub/SitePages/Home.aspx

North Berwick High School Sketchnote on Professional Learning

A Sketchnote illustrating professional learning and its impact in North Berwick High School

https://education.gov.scot/media/zlkp1wxd/north-berwick-high-sketchnote.pdf

Education Scotland – Assessment in the BGE 2020/2021 (Update)

Updated guidance from Education Scotland on assessment in the BGE and using assessment to support learner progress.

https://education.gov.scot/media/rjeovyau/assessment-within-bge-2020-21-update.pdf

Education Scotland Assessment within the broad general education: a thematic inspection Signposts to highly-effective practice

This report takes a closer look at the effective use of assessment within broad general education. It explores some of the important factors which are making a significant difference to the way practitioners use assessment to improve children’s and young people’s learning and outcomes.

https://education.gov.scot/media/plwh4m3d/assessment-within-bge.pdf

Assessment Guidance Paper – Education Scotland

This paper, from Education Scotland is part of a suite of resources and provides advice on approaches to monitoring and tracking progress and achievement in order to help inform discussion and further develop practitioner understanding.

Assessment guidance paper (glowscotland.org.uk)

Dylan Wiliam – Peer and Self-Assessment

Dylan Wiliam discusses the place of using self and peer assessment to support high quality learning. Dylan Wiliam is Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at University College London.

https://education.gov.scot/improvement/practice-exemplars/dylan-wiliam-self-and-peer-assessment

Dylan Wiliam – Formative
Assessment

Dylan Wiliam discusses the use of formative assessment to support high quality feedback on learning.

https://education.gov.scot/improvement/learning-resources/dylan-wiliam-formative-assessment/

Education Scotland – Effective School Improvement Planning

This resource offers a user-friendly summary of the key principles for improvement planning taking account of Standards in Scotland's Schools etc. Act 2000 statutory guidance and Achieving Excellence and Equity: national improvement framework and improvement plan 2022.

https://education.gov.scot/improvement/self-evaluation/effective-school-improvement-planning-2022/

Education Scotland Sketchnote – Townhill Primary on Moderation

Sketchnote outlining the benefits to moderation in schools

https://education.gov.scot/media/n42nkkpp/townhill-sketchnote.pdf

Education Scotland – Digital Approaches
to Moderation

A guide to utilising digital technology from Education Scotland. This could allow moderation across establishments without the need to travel.

https://education.gov.scot/improvement/learning-resources/digital-approach-to-moderation-in-the-broad-general-education/

West Partnership

West Partnership Assessment and Moderation Page

This page has a variety of resources practitioners can access, from Assessment Guides to the Learning Resource Suite as well as The West Partnership Moderation Paperwork and Guidance.

Assessment & Moderation – The West Partnership

West Partnership Learning, Teaching and Assessment Professional Learning Resource Suite

This page of the West Partnership website takes you through each stage of the L, T, A cycle with videos, detailed PowerPoints and reflective questions/conversations. It also showcases some exemplars of evidence that have been moderated through our annual moderation events.

https://www.westpartnership.co.uk/curriculum-learning-teaching-assessment/lta-cycle/

The West Partnership Guide to High Quality Assessment

This comprehensive guide takes you through what High Quality Assessment is, the key features of this type of assessment, why you should use it and when you should use it. It also includes exemplars from Early to 4^th Level.

High Quality Assessment – The West Partnership

The West Partnership Guide to Ongoing Assessment

This comprehensive guide takes you through what Ongoing Assessment is, the key features of this type of assessment, why you should use it and when you should use it. It also includes exemplars from Early to 4^th Level.

Ongoing Assessment – The West Partnership

The West Partnership Guide to Periodic Assessment

This comprehensive guide takes you through what Periodic Assessment is, the key features of this type of assessment, why you should use it and when you should use it. It also includes exemplars from Early to 4^th Level.

Periodic Assessment – The West Partnership

The West Partnership Guide to Ongoing Assessment

Ongoing Assessment – The West Partnership

The West Partnership Guide to Standardised Assessment

This comprehensive guide takes you through what Standardised Assessment is, the key features of this type of assessment, why you should use it and when you should use it.

Standardised Assessments – The West Partnership

The West Partnership Event and Communication

This page of the West Partnership website details any upcoming events or programmes running that could be used for CLPL opportunities.

https://www.westpartnership.co.uk/events-and-communication/

West Partnership Primary Curriculum Programme – Colquhoun Park Primary – Outdoor learning

This collaborative action research project found that co-created outdoor learning activities could be a good way of raising awareness of particular skills and of developing them. Feedback from pupils suggested that they enjoyed learning outdoors as well has having a key role in developing their learning activities.

https://www.westpartnership.co.uk/download/8837

All Primary Curriculum Programmes found at the bottom of this page Collaborative Action Research – The West Partnership

West Partnership Primary Curriculum Programme – High Park Primary – Increasing Attainment of Writing

This collaborative action research project found that the effective implementation of professional learning led to improved staff confidence and skill which ultimately had an impact on children in the classroom.

https://www.westpartnership.co.uk/download/8841

All Primary Curriculum Programmes found at the bottom of this page Collaborative Action Research – The West Partnership

The EEF

Education Endowment Fund - Teacher Feedback to Improve Pupil Learning

This includes a guidance report and poster from the EEF on effective feedback that can improve pupil learning. Their findings are based on international evidence.

Teacher Feedback to Improve Pupil Learning | EEF (educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk)

Education Endowment Fund – Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning

This guidance report and poster reviews the best available research to offer teachers and senior leaders practical advice on how to develop their pupils’ metacognitive skills and knowledge. The report has recommendations in seven areas and ‘myth busts’ common misconceptions teachers have about metacognition.

https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-evidence/guidance-reports/metacognition

Articles and Research on Pupil Voice

Student Voice to Improve Schools – Sage Publication

This article explores the use of student voice to contribute to improving schools. Through the gathering of perspectives and experiences of staff and students, it considers how the responses to requirements for both student voice and school improvement interrelate and identifies challenges to be addressed.

Student voice to improve schools: Perspectives from students, teachers and leaders in ‘perfect’ conditions - Mari-Ana Jones, Sara Bubb, 2021 (sagepub.com)

Using Student Voice to Challenge Understandings of Educational Research, Policy and Practice - Springer

Excerpt from the book Radical Collegiality Through Student Voice. The authors argue that in order to take student voice seriously, the system (policy and practice) that children learn in must radically change through listening and acting on their views, and position student voice as political and educational imperatives.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-1858-0_1

Action Research (Wales) What impact will the assimilation of pupil voice into practice have upon pupils' motivation, engagement and standards?

The key focus of this project was to develop an understanding of how the assimilation of pupil voice into practice impacts on pupils' motivation, engagement and standards. Findings collected from observations and pupil and parent questionnaires clearly showed that when pupil voice was used effectively pupils became more independent, were able to persevere for longer, were keener to complete challenges, were more focused and the quality of output improved.

https://www.ewc.wales/site/index.php/en/documents/research-and-statistics/action-research-reports/1458-what-impact-will-the-assimilation-of-pupil-voice-into-practice-have-upon-pupils-motivation-engagement-and-standards/file.html

Resources for Making Thinking Visible

Thinking Pathways

Exploring a range of Thinking Pathways allows teachers and students to move beyond surface learning that focuses on the memorisation of knowledge and facts, to more deep and reflective learning that is focused on developing understanding through more active and constructive processes. This website provides practitioners with thinking routines, how to create a culture of learning, and visible thinking resources.

https://thinkingpathwayz.weebly.com/

Harvard University Project – Visible Thinking

Guides to thinking routines, resources and professional development from Harvard University.

http://pz.harvard.edu/projects/visible-thinking

Documentaries

Dylan Wiliam – The Classroom Experiment

A one hour documentary - theory and practice meet head on as education expert Professor Dylan Wiliam sets up an experimental school classroom. For one term, he takes over a Year 8 class at a secondary comprehensive to test simple ideas that he believes could improve the quality of our children's education.

The Classroom Experiment (Ep.1) - YouTube