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ASSESSMENT AND INCLUSIVE EDUCATION BARRIER OR SUPPORT?

ASSESSMENT AND INCLUSIVE EDUCATION BARRIER OR SUPPORT?. Seamus Hegarty UNESCO, Santiago 19 November 2009 . Overview. Purposes of assessment Often seen as a problem How assessment can help. What purposes does assessment serve in education?. Purposes of assessment. Learners

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ASSESSMENT AND INCLUSIVE EDUCATION BARRIER OR SUPPORT?

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  1. ASSESSMENT AND INCLUSIVE EDUCATIONBARRIER OR SUPPORT? Seamus Hegarty UNESCO, Santiago 19 November 2009

  2. Overview • Purposes of assessment • Often seen as a problem • How assessment can help

  3. What purposes does assessment serve in education?

  4. Purposes of assessment • Learners What do they know? What are they learning? Do they have difficulties in learning? And, if so, why? Ditto for skills and attitudes

  5. Purposes of assessment • Teachers What should my students be learning? How well am I facilitating their learning? Do I need to change my pedagogy?

  6. Purposes of assessment • System Are pupils graded/certificated - accurately? meaningfully? fairly? How do our schools perform in comparison with each other? with other countries? Are schools transforming young people's lives? preparing them for adult life?

  7. Why is assessment so often deemed to be a problem for inclusive education?

  8. problems • Information derived from assessment not useful for learning and teaching, or not used well • Comparative information used inappropriately • Some assessment practices are exclusionary

  9. How can assessment help inclusive education? How can assessment help students with SEN receive a good education?

  10. Deal with the downside • Inappropriate and unhelpful labelling • Misuse of raw test results • Allowing tests to dictate the curriculum

  11. Capitalise on the upside • Information that helps teachers • Target • Monitor • Improve

  12. Capitalise on the upside • Information that helps teachers • Target • Monitor • Improve

  13. Capitalise on the upside • Information that helps teachers • Target • Monitor • Improve • Allocating resources • Monitoring performance

  14. Assessment • barrier or support?

  15. Muchas gracias!

  16. Assessment tools for teachers • Screening instruments • Structured tasks • Achievement tests • Social measures • (Specialist tools)

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