How can Dr. Radford help you?
- Review the alignment of teaching and learning processes with curriculum documents by examining teaching and learning programs, assessment tasks, student work samples and school policies to review and map against syllabuses.
- Examine data to determine trends and areas for improvement regarding student attainment of key core skills.
- Provide professional development in building teacher capacity to improve teacher assessment practices understanding how to align their teaching and learning with the intentions of the syllabus, achievement standards and assessment processes with the curriculum. This will have the added benefit of reducing the threat to the validity of teacher developed assessment tasks and reduce threats to the validity of teacher derived school assessments by:
- understanding assessment theory and key terms such as reliability and validity;
- how to cognitively align teaching and learning and assessment practices;
- how to construct assessment questions and marking rubrics;
- understanding moderation;
- understanding feedback;
- how to use assessment data.
Dr Olivia Radford
"The goal of Learning Outcomes is to assist teachers and schools to build relationships with parents and students by providing transparency about how judgements of student achievement are made and how students can improve their knowledge and skills."
