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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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Assessments in education should be valid for a number of reasons:

1. Validity determines the accuracy of an assessment: A valid assessment accurately measures what it is supposed to measure, such as knowledge, skills, abilities or attitudes. This is important because it provides meaningful and relevant information about student learning.

2. Fairness: Validity helps to ensure that the assessment is fair to all students and that it does not unfairly advantage or disadvantage any particular group. This helps to promote educational equity.

3. Reliability: Validity helps to ensure that the results of an assessment are consistent and reliable so that scores can be trusted and used to make important decisions about students.

4. Decision-making: Validity is important for decision-making because it ensures that the results of an assessment are used in a trustworthy and meaningful way. For example, valid assessments can be used to determine if a student is ready to move on to the next grade, or if they need additional support in a particular subject area.

Overall, the validity of an assessment is crucial in providing accurate and meaningful information about student learning, and in making important educational decisions based on that information.