Assessment for Learning
‘Offering supportive feedback’
This section of the website aims to provide support for teacher judgement through a number of samples of student work across a range of subjects in post-primary junior cycle. The student work has been collected by teachers in post-primary schools from everyday work situations. They are not show-cases of exemplary standard; they cover a range of student output, some more successful than others. What the examples have in common is that they follow an AfL pattern of teaching and learning which involves the following four elements:
- Sharing the learning intention for the lesson (what we are learning)
- Sharing the criteria for success for the task (how we will judge how successful the student has been in carrying out the task)
- Giving feedback linked to the criteria
- Focusing on three aspects of the work:
- What the student has done well
- What gaps, shortcomings or errors there are
- How the student can improve his/her work
While the examples of student work included here come from real students in real school settings, names given are not the real names of the students.
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