Assessment, monitoring and feedback - 2. Assessment criteria used by awarding bodies

This unit will help you to

  • identify the nature assessment used by exam boards
  • use assessment objectives to create assessment tasks
  • make formative use of summative assessment

The unit content comprises

  • A discussion of the ways in which awarding bodies use assessment objectives with a little help from Bloom. Examples are taken from GCSE, AL and IB courses, applied business and vocational specifications
  • Some examples of ways in which assessment objectives can be used to design assessment tasks
  • Some tasks to help learners understand and use assessment objectives to improve their own work.

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