ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how to provide feedback for pupils and how to support their own assessment of their performance. Teachers also produce assessments of learning in the shape of end-of-year reports. These reports summarise the knowledge, skills and competencies pupils have developed over the school year. To compile a report, a teacher draws not just on test results, but on information they have observed and recorded over the year on the pupil’s performance: marks in their exercise books; observations of them at work; conversations with them; and, very often, feedback from TAs. Diagnostic tests are also examples of assessment of learning. These are tests that check where a pupil is in relation to a very specific set of developmental skills. Diagnostic tests are often used when there are concerns about a child’s development and may be used to determine the extent to which they have a specific learning need or developmental delay.
