Assessment Task
This assessment requires you to:
1. Create / Design your own assessment task;
2. Create / Design a corresponding rubric; and
3. Use unit content as contained in academic research and journal articles to support assertions, provide a rationale for pedagogical choices and evidence critical reflection on the end-to-end teaching and learning assessment process described below.
Word count: 2,000 words (+/- 10%). This includes all text in the body of the assessment (headings, intext citations, captions and direct quotes). It excludes the Reference List, cover page, contents page and appendices.
Note: For this assessment, your marker will stop reading when the maximum word count is reached and only award marks on the material read.
Teaching and Learning Assessment Process:
Identify a primary year level, learning area/subject and curriculum Content Descriptor from the Australian Curriculum (or State curriculum);
Create / design a relevant assessment task linked to the selected Content Descriptor (and Elaborations if relevant);
Create / design a rubric aligned with the task and learning outcomes;
Conduct the assessment with a primary school-aged child (consent must be obtained, unless on Professional Experience with Mentor Teacher / school approval);
Mark and moderate the assessment task using the rubric;
Provide constructive feedback to the participant;
Write a formal report comment suitable for parents/carers;
Reflect on the effectiveness of the teaching and assessment process in terms of feedback, teaching, learning (for the child/ren and you as the teacher);
Reflect on the moderation process that occurred;
Recommend the next steps you would take for teaching the participant (or class) in that learning area/subject (what are the child/ren’s next steps?); and
Integrate academic research and journal articles, correctly referenced using APA 7th edition, to justify choices, evidence a critical approach and analysis of the teaching and learning assessment process.
