Designing Assessment: What do they know? How do we know?

About this module

In this module, we’ll reflect upon the role of assessment in our curricula and explore how we can design assessment that maximises impact. We’ll consider the lethal mutations that can occur in assessment before reflecting on what is currently in place and what a hybrid model of assessment might look like. The module concludes by discussing metacognition and the place this holds within the classroom.

This module is suitable for middle leaders and aspiring middle leaders.

• Black boxes and lethal mutations
• The hinterland and inferences
• The importance of metacognition