This document contains various resources for teachers and students related to assessment and learning goals. It includes checklists for writing and math criteria, links to websites about visible learning and self-assessment questions. There are also examples of marksheets for history essays and references to growth mindset research about how students can train their brains. The document promotes assessing student achievement and progress towards specific learning goals.

1. challenginglearning.com
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2. Would you rather have a magic …
Box of chocolates; Flying Carpet; Singing Frog
What If … ?

3. Professor John Hattie’s Visible Learning series
2009 2011

4. Children learn (sometimes better) without us

5. Top 3 Self Assessment
Questions
1. Where am I
going?
2. How much
progress have I
made so far?
3. What are my
next steps?

6. Maths criteria sheet
www.brightonsc.vic.edu.au

7. Writing Checklist
www.hipsburn.northumberland.eschools.co.uk
For example
The mud is
squelchy and
sticks to my
wellies like syrup
The ogre in my
story is really
quite shy but he
pretends to be
brave and a bit
bossy
Learning goal
To use descriptive
words when writing
about places and
characters

8. Sharp pencil
Title
Date
Capital Letters
Full stops
Describe the character
Describe the place
First, next, then, finally
And, but, so, while, because
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Fun action words (bounded, sprang) ✔
Rhyming words (loud, proud, crowd) ✔
1. Draft
2. Assess
3. Edit
4. Mark
5. Complete
www.hipsburn.
northumberland.
eschools.co.uk

9. Introduction
 4+ sentences
 Proposition stated
 Outline of narrative
 Context of topic
Body of essay
 3+ paragraphs
 6+ facts per paragraph
 Inter-relationships
 Argument is relevant
 Quote with source given
Conclusion
 3+ sentences
 Summation
 Proof of proposition
 Specific reference to assess/evaluate
History Marksheet by Frank Egan
www.aranmore.wa.edu.au
“I can actually
see how to
improve, it’s
obvious.”

10. Breakthrough
www.stonefields.school.n
z

11. Breakthrough
Stretch
Practice

12. Do your pupils train their brains?
Dweck, 2006

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Pre-Test
410 - = 6

14. Achievement AND progress
Progress
Achievement
1. High A
Low P
2. High A
High P
3. Low A
Low P
4. Low A
High P
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