Assessment Proformas and Pupil Self-Assessment

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I enjoyed Ben White’s recent blog ‘Strips of Feedback’ which I intend to use. We were discussing assessment in a meeting today where it was mentioned that ‘research had shown’ that work that has a grade and comment is not as useful as just a comment or just a grade. With just a grade pupils are inclined to ask ‘why didn’t I get 10 out of 10’. With just a comment, they are likely to read it. With both, they look at the grade but not the comment but do not ask how to improve.

A great deal is written about effective assessment, marking and pupil self-assessment. I was reading tonight in Geoff Petty’s ‘Teaching Today’ a technique that allows all of this through the use of assessment proformas. This is particularly good for teaching skills and technique.

The proforma can be adapted for any piece of work and can be broken down according to the skills that are being assessed at the time. The example I have put together is for a standard evaluation question that identifies application and analysis skills as well. Pupils are required to fill in the sheet as they write their answers and to reflect on the use of the skills. The teacher can then comment subsequently on those same skills. It would be possible to add in further boxes where the pupils can include a mark for Knowledge, application, analysis and evaluation.

I have not used this yet but will ‘give it go’ in the near future. You can open a copy at the bottom of the page.

Assessment Proforma

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