Table of Contents

Part 1: Assessment, Values, Learning and Agency 1. Assessment and Values: a Close and Necessary relationship 2. Assessment and Learning 3. Can Assessment Unlock and Open the Doors to Resourcefulness and Agency? Part 2: Assessment for Learning 4. Feedback - the Central Process in Assessment for Learning 5. Questioning and Dialogue 6. Getting to the Core of Learning: Using Assessment for Self-Monitoring and Self-regulation 7. Understanding and Using Assessment Data Part 3: Assessment Issues 8. Quality in Assessment 9. Trusting Teachers' Judgements 10. Technology in the Service of 21st Century Learning and Assessment. Continuing the Exploration

About the Author

Sue Swaffield is a lecturer in Leadership and School Improvement in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Throughout her career as a teacher, local authority adviser and university lecturer, assessment development and research has been a major theme. She is a co-author of Improving Learning How to Learn: Classrooms, Schools and Networks and Assessement Literacy for Wise Decisions.