Assessment for the Future:Exploring the Big Picture

through the AAIA Perspective

Moat House HotelStratford upon Avon

14-16 September 2005

Exploring how assessment may develop in the future through:

•    Every Child Matters•    Personalised Learning•     New Relationships with Schools•     Assessment Systems for the Future•     Perspectives from countries across

the UK•     e-learning• School Leadership and Management

Some questions• How do we promote a better understanding of

the assessment information that schools have – both what it means and how it can best be used?

• How can we integrate the different purposes that assessment serves?

• How can we achieve accountability processes that support the development of learning and teaching in schools?

• How can we make the most of the opportunities presented by the changes that we face?

Assessment for the Future:Exploring the Big Picture

through the AAIA Perspective

Moat House HotelStratford upon Avon

14-16 September 2005

Assessment: As You Like ItAssessment: Measure for measureAssessment: Much Ado About Nothing

a plague on both your houses Romeo and Juliet Act III Scene i

EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES

Teach me an answer to this perilous timeEdward III Act V Scene iv

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE

…… this drudge, or diviner laid claim to me,told me what privy marks I had about meComedy of Errors Act III Scene ii

JUNIUS BRUTUS (to Sicinius Velutus)

Mark you that?Coriolanus Act II Scene ii

FLUELLEN

It is not well done, mark you nowHenry V Act IV Scene vii

DUKE OF VENICE

To vouch this is no proof,Without more wider and more overt testThan these thin habits and poor likelihoodsOthello Act I Scene iii

VERNON

As if he mastered there a double spiritOf teaching and of learning instantlyHenry IV Part1 Act V Scene ii

CRESSIDA

Why tell you me of moderation?Troilus and Cressida Act IV Scene iv

…… since brevity is the soul of wit,And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,I will be briefHamlet Act II Scene ii

Very well met, and welcomeMeasure for Measure Act IV Scene i