CLASSROOM-BASED ASSESSMENT of LEARNING

Actively monitoring learner engagement and/or involvement in learning tasks throughout the lesson is an important element of effective teaching and learning. Teaching, learning, monitoring, assessment, and feedback are important dynamic, ongoing processes that assist learners in constructing knowledge, and that provide the teacher and learners with information about how learning is progressing. Monitoring, assessing, and providing feedback about learning can be done by the teacher and/or by learners. Informal assessment techniques provide the teacher and learners with information about learner understandings of content and learning tasks. Because learning proceeds throughout a lesson, monitoring and informal assessment activities should be continuous. Monitoring learning reflects a variety of methods and tasks including questioning, self-monitoring (meta cognition), and examining work. Feedback about learning typically follows monitoring and informal assessment. Learners receive feedback that is specific to the individual learner and/or group and the learning task and are afforded sufficient opportunities for learning that reflect concern for individual differences. If learners have difficulty understanding content and/or performing learning tasks, adjustments in teaching methods and learning tasks need to be made.