Assessment Resources – Transforming Learning Fife

Assessment resources have been developed to support practitioners with planning and moderating effective learning, teaching and assessment.

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Expressive Arts

The following assessment posters can be used to support Dance.

Dance – 5 Elements

Dance – Choreographic Devices and Structures

Dance – Discussing Choreography – Primary

Dance – Discussing Choreography – Secondary

Literacy and English

These guidance documents have been developed to strengthen practitioner confidence and professional judgement, to support effective assessment and moderation practices.

Listening and Talking Assessment Resource Pack

This has been developed to support practitioners with planning and moderating effective learning, teaching and assessment.

The Listening and Talking Principles have been developed to support a shared understanding and language around the key characteristics we want learners to develop.

Active Listening Principles

Group Discussion Principles

Individual Talk Principles

The Listening and Talking Assessments have been developed to support the monitoring and tracking of learners’ progress and achievement in key listening and talking skills.

Active Listening Assessment

Group Discussion Assessment

Individual Talk Assessment

The Group Discussion Placemats have been developed to support learners’ engagement with others, helping them to contribute ideas more effectively and participate confidently.

Group Discussion Placemats

Reading Assessment Resource Pack

has been developed to support practitioners with planning and moderating effective learning, teaching and assessment.

The Reading Progressions have been developed to support professional judgement around learning, teaching and assessment of key reading skills at each CfE level.

Phonological Awareness Progression

Sounds and Letters Progression

High Frequency Word Progression

Morphological Awareness Progression

Understanding Analysing and Evaluating Progression

Fluency and Expression Progression

The Reading Assessments have been developed to support monitoring and tracking of learners’ progress with, and achievement of, the key reading skills at each CfE level.

Visual Discrimination Assessment

Concepts of Print Assessment

Phonological Awareness Assessment

Sounds and Letters Assessment

High Frequency Words Assessment

Morphological Awareness Assessment

Understanding Analysing and Evaluating Assessment

Fluency and Expression Assessment

The Understanding, Analysing and Evaluating Placemats have been developed to support learners to effectively identify and use a range of strategies to make meaning.

Understanding Analysing Evaluating Placemat – Early

Understanding Analysing Evaluating Placemat – First

Understanding Analysing Evaluating Placemat – Second

The Understanding, Analysing and Evaluating Bookmarks have been developed to support learners to identify and articulate their use of different reading strategies, helping them to more effectively apply these when engaging with a range of texts independently.

Understanding Analysing Evaluating Bookmark

Writing Assessment Resource Pack

This has been developed to support practitioners with planning and moderating effective learning, teaching and assessment.

The Text Type Assessments have been developed to support professional judgement around the key characteristics of an effective text at each CfE level.

Description – Fife Text Type Assessment

Discussion – Fife Text Type Assessment

Explanation – Fife Text Type Assessment

Exposition – Fife Text Type Assessment

Information Report – Fife Text Type Assessment

Narrative – Fife Text Type Assessment

Procedure – Fife Text Type Assessment

Recount – Fife Text Type Assessment

Response-Review – Fife Text Type Assessment

The Self-Assessment Criteria Grids (Tools for Writing) have been developed to support learners to understand the achievement criteria for each CfE level, helping them to more effectively identify their own strengths and areas for improvement.

The Peer and Self Assessment (Creating Written Texts) and Peer and Self Assessment (Tools for Writing) have been developed to support learners as they engage in the feedback process, helping them to identify their own strengths and areas for improvement.

The Sounds and Letters Spelling Assessment and High Frequency Words Spelling Assessment have been developed to support effective monitoring, tracking and professional judgement around learners’ spelling development and progress.

The Spelling Assessment Record has been created to support recording and analysis of learners’ spelling attempts to inform more targeted learning and teaching approaches.