Description
Book SynopsisThis book explores assessment practices that offer an enlightening and enabling view of all learners. Following the demise of national curriculum levels, the book embraces a unique opportunity to change how children are assessed. Rather than simply replacing the old structure with a new one, it focuses instead on enabling children to learn in meaningful ways so that assessment becomes a tool for improvement rather than judgment by building on two influential research studies, Learning without Limits (Hart et al 2004) and Creating Learning without Limits (Swann et al 2012).
Inspired by a relentless focus on every childâs capacity to learn, the book explores what can be achieved when we remove limits on learning. School leaders and teachers, struggling against practices that seeks to define, label and rank, explore the opportunity to view assessment reform as a means of reducing inequity through âlearning without limitsâ principles of collaboration, professio
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: Building a professional learning culture of trust
Chapter Two: Learning to Listen: Finding a way through for every child
Chapter Three: A language for thinking: Assessment through dialogue
Chapter Four: Beyond differentiation: Avoiding labelling
Chapter Five: Assessing writing
Chapter Six: Reporting to families: Sharing assessment without levels or grades
Chapter Seven: A Whole- school approach to assessment
Chapter Eight: Principled innovative leadership for transformability
