2. Task and key questions for assessment of students, teachers and schools
Living Democracy » Textbooks » Educating for democracy » Part 2 – Teaching democracy and human rights » Unit 5 – Assessment of students, teachers and schools » 2. Task and key questions for assessment of students, teachers and schools- 2.1 Task
In the course of planning your lessons and teaching units, one aspect which deserves attention is the question of how to control...
- 2.2 Key questions
Learning process of students: How is successful learning identified and assessed? In what way is self-assessment and assessment by others applied? How...
- 2 - Work file 1: Different dimensions of assessment
The different dimensions of students’ assessment include three levels. By using this cube model, the interdependence of the three dimensions can be...
- 2 - Work file 2: Perspectives of assessment
Internal and external assessments enable a person to get a picture about his/her own status of learning and to develop further steps...
- 2 - Work file 3: Perspectives and forms of assessment
Assessment of learning processes (formative) This perspective serves to improve, control and check on a student’s learning process, or the student’s and...
- 2 - Work file 4: Standards of reference
There are three different basic standards of reference for the assessment and marking of students’ performance: Individual criterion: the student’s present performance...
- 2 - Work file 5: Assessment of students – the influence of assessment on self-concepts
Assessment in school is a wide-open field. It not only has influence on explicit things that can be observed such as students’...
- 2 - Work file 6: Checklist “How do I assess my students?”
When assessing students teachers should bear in mind the key principles in the following checklist: Assessment should be a means of support:...
- 2 - Work file 7: Assessment of teachers
Getting feedback about achievement of students is one of the central principles of school.34 Getting feedback about the quality of teaching is...
- 2 - Work file 8: Self-assessment of teachers
For daily school practice, self-assessment of teaching is the most pragmatic and easiest method of assessment. Usually, these kinds of assessment take...
- 2 - Work file 9: Working with journals, logbooks, portfolios37
Reflecting on one’s own teaching with the use of journals, logbooks or portfolios can be an ideal method for self-assessment and a...
- 2 - Work file 10: Co-operative teaching and peer feedback
Without a doubt, co-operative planning of EDC/HRE lessons together with a fellow teacher can be a useful tool for mutual information and...
- 2 - Work file 11: Assessment of EDC/HRE in schools
Democracy is not an automatic mechanism. Democracy is on the one hand a historical achievement in old democracies and on the other...
- 2 - Work file 12: Quality indicators of EDC/HRE in a school
The Council of Europe tool “Quality Assurance of Education for Democratic Citizenship in Schools” includes a set of these indicators divided into...
- 2 - Work file 13: General principles for evaluating EDC/HRE
“EDC/HRE is a dynamic, all-inclusive and forward-oriented concept. It promotes the idea of school as a community of learning and teaching for...
- 2 - Work file 14: Guidelines for self-evaluation of schools
When a school decides to go through a self-evaluation in terms of EDC/HRE it has to be aware of the fact that...
- 2 - Work file 15: Involving the different stakeholders in evaluating EDC/HRE in a school
When a school decides to go through a self-evaluation, good organisation is needed. Ideally, there should be one person responsible for steering...
- 2 - Work file 16: Governance and management in a school46
A school can also be measured by looking at the way EDC/HRE processes are reflected in the way it is governed. In...
- 2 - Work file 17: Focus on democratic school governance
For assessing the status quo of a school with regard to EDC/HRE practice and its relation between theory and practice or between...
- 2 - Work file 18: How to analyse and interpret EDC/HRE evaluation results
There are many ways to analyse, categorise and interpret evaluation results. When using the set of quality indicators for EDC/HRE suggested in...
