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Assessment: A Whole-School Approach
  • Assessment: A Whole-School Approach
  • Faria Education Group
  • About the Author
  • Overview
  • First Principle Thinking
  • The Purpose of Assessment
  • Developing an Assessment Culture
  • Assessment in Context – Teaching and Reporting
  • What is Assessment?
  • Why do we Assess?
  • Establishing and Using an Assessment Framework
    • Designing an Assessment Framework
  • What are we assessing?
    • Learning Motivations
    • Approach to Learning/Learning how to Learn
  • Assessment and the Report Card
  • Planning for Assessment
  • Phase One: Preparation (Establishing Capabilities and Resources)
  • Phase Two: Implementation (Design and Implementation/Integration)
    • Backwards by Design
    • Effective Classroom Assessment Practices
      • Micro-Assessments
    • Assessment Design Principles
      • Validity
      • Reliability
      • Authentic
      • Sufficient
    • Key Principles of Design
  • The Assessment Framework and a Development Pathway
  • Phase Three: Feedback and Reflection
  • Learning, Assessment, Feedback Routine
  • Good Feedback Practices
    • Feedback Strategies
    • Moving from Feedback to Feedforward
    • Delaying the Grade: How to Get Students to Read Feedback
    • Flash Feedback: How to Provide More Meaningful Feedback in Less Time
  • Assessment within the Learning Experience
  • Implementation and Monitoring
  • Further Reading
  • Looking for More Support in This Area?
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Assessment Design Principles

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Assessments should be valid, reliable, authentic and sufficient. These are essential to ensuring the assessment tools are fit for purpose and therefore generate the required data for analysis. Each of these is interconnected and when pursued together enables decisions to be made with confidence.

What does each of these terms mean?

Validity
Reliability
Authentic
Sufficient