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“A variety of assessment approaches can be used to allow children and young people to demonstrate knowledge and understanding, skills, attributes, and capabilities in different contexts across the curriculum.”
Assessment within the BGE 2020/21 (Update)
April 2021
High Quality Assessments (formerly known as holistic assessments) offer an opportunity to gather evidence of breadth, challenge and application of learning.
An important tool in assessing in the BGE, High Quality Assessments reduce bureaucracy, and provide an opportunity for pupils to demonstrate application of prior learning to new and unfamiliar contexts. These complement ongoing assessment and help us to evidence learners’ progress and occur periodically throughout the year and are created when planning for learning and teaching.
High Quality Assessments:
Demonstrate breadth of learning
- Require the learner to draw on a range of learning from a number of Experiences and Outcomes across different organisers
Demonstrate challenge
- Promote higher order thinking skills –creating, evaluating, analysing
Demonstrate application of learning in new and unfamiliar situations (4 contexts of learning)
Learning Across the Four Contexts
High Quality Assessments are carefully constructed:
Selecting Es and Os from planned learning
Assess a breadth of previously taught concepts in new contexts
Provide an appropriate level of challenge (focussed on skills
Provide the application of prior learning (knowledge and skills) to new and unfamiliar contexts
See the presentation to the right about developing High Quality Assessments for more information.
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