Assessment for Learning

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Assessment for Learning

• Tips for Better Preparation of
• NSS Geography Curriculum

Au-Yeung Wai Yin Cognitio College (Kowloon)
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Why Should Assessment for Learning be Implemented?

• Making learning more meaningful
• Cater for a wider range of students with more
  diverse abilities, interests and needs
• Respond more directly to the needs and
  aspirations of students

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How Could Assessment for Learning be Implemented?

• Issue- and problem-based enquiry in real-life
  contexts

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4 Key Features (http//www.ltscotland.org.uk/asses
s/for/keyfeatures/index.asp)

• High quality
• interactions
• - thoughtful
• questions
• - careful listening
• - reflective
• response

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4 Key Features

• 2) Involving students in
• their learning
• - group discussion,
• presentation,
• question and answer,
• field study,
• project learning etc.

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4 Key Features

• 3) Giving timely feedback
• - feedback on how good the work is
• and further improvement
• 4) Sharing criteria
• - students clear about what is to be
• learned and what success would
• be like

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What Should Students Learn?

• promotion of learning in life and learning for
  life
• cultivation of positive values and attitudes, and
  the development of a global perspective and civic
  awareness
• construction of knowledge

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What Should Students Learn?

• Development of generic skills
• 4 Cs
• 1) critical thinking skills
• 2) communication skills
• 3) collaboration skills
• 4) creativity
• Map and photo interpretation

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4 Topics for Investigation

• 1) Opportunities and Risks Is it rational to
  live in hazard-prone areas?
• - Volcanic eruption in Iceland
• - Earthquake at Qing Hai

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4 Topics for Investigation

• 2) Weather and Climate
• - Relationship between climatic hazards
• and human activities
• a) drought in China
• b) dust storm in Hong Kong and China