In this session, we looked at the many aspects of assessment - in our brainstorm the consensus was that assessment needs to encourage learning. Formative assessment is useful as it can provide lots of opportunities for formal and informal feedback.
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For effective assessment the values and principles of assessment need to be considered. More can be read about this topic on the wiki:
Effective assessment. When choosing the methods and tools to be used, it is helpful to consider eight broad categories of learning outcomes as compiled by Lee Dunn (2011)- these are described in
Methods and tools on the wiki.
