Professor Sue Bloxom's keynote speech "what are we really trying to do with assessment in teacher education- resolving conflicting purposes and principles"

1. What are we really trying to do with assessment in teacher education: Resolving Conflicting purposes and principles Sue Bloxham

2. Certification to identify and discriminate between different levels of achievement, and between students, providing a license to practice in the case of professional programmes, enabling selection of students for further study and employment. This is assessment of learning.

3. Quality assurance to provide evidence for relevant stakeholders (for example headteachers, ofsted, external examiners) to enable them to judge the appropriateness of standards on the programme This is assessment of learning.

5. Lifelong learning: sustainable assessment This is assessment as learning . to achieve an understanding of standards, to learn how to make judgments, to be able to use criteria, to be able to tell when you really understand something

8. Conflict in assessment purposes Group assessment Un-seen examinations Peer & self assessment Presentations, debates

9. Unseen exam Essay Poster setting out scientific work for lay readers Press release Reflective journal Debate speech Designing a leaflet for parents or web resource School-based project Working in a group to make a radio programme Curating an online exhibition Familiar ‘safe’ assessment Methods. Examiners will understand. Newer methods which may assess a wider range of learning and different communication skills Tutor marked Self, peer and tutor marked

13. Programme assessment map D= developed A=assessed Con’t through all modules/ placements D D D 206 D D DA 205 D 204 D D DA 203 D DA 105 D DA 104 D D D 103 D 102 D D 101 Programme outcome 6 Programme outcome 5 Programme outcome 4 Programme outcome 3 Programme outcome 2 Programme outcome 1 modules