AS4ODFL/Formative assessment/Overview

This section focuses on the relationship between teaching, learning and assessment, particularly but not exclusively in the context of a sudden shift to so-called blended teaching and learning during Covid.

Assessment for learning
Perhaps one of the most challenging aspects of distance learning and emergency remote teaching during COVID-19 has been the aspect of assessment. In addition to putting your course materials online, you may have been anxious to confirm what students know, and demonstrate whether or not they have met curriculum outcomes. In other words your focus may have been on assessment of learning rather than assessment for learning. Write down your own definition of each of assessment of learning, assessment for learning and assessment as learning. Click on the accordion tabs below to check your thinking.