Principles of Great Assessment

Event Details

Start date: 19 March, 2021

Start time: 09:00

End time: 16:00

Venue: Services For Education, 3 Holt Court, Holt Street, Birmingham B7 4AX

This course looks at how retrieval practice and assessment are links and how you can can improve retention and make accurate judgements of children’s knowledge using assessment.

You will start by learning the principles of validity and reliability in assessment and how both formative and summative assessment should be used in the classroom.

You will also explore the most impactful ways to give effective feedback based on the latest research. The course will go on to make the link between theory and practice by explaining different methods of assessing children in the classroom.

For more information contact us here or call us on 0121 366 9950.

About the Course Leader: Tricia Bunn

Over a career spanning 20 years, Tricia has been involved in primary Education in a variety of contexts – as a teacher; senior leader; headteacher (within an LEA and within an Academy) and teacher educator. She is an experienced, successful headteacher, having led two schools since 2010.

For three years Tricia was Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at the University of Wolverhampton. In this role she was Module leader for English and Lead Tutor for the PGCE. Tricia is part of our School improvement team and is a tutor on the SFE primary initial teacher training programme.

She is the Lead English Adviser and co-leads on our curriculum development programme. Another key part of her most recent work has been embedding an understanding of cognitive theory into CPD, and ensuring this is the basis of work going forward.