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Assessment Resource for Teachers |
The Teachers'
Choice of NEMP Tasks is a resource kit for
use by classroom teachers. It was developed by Dr Alison
Gilmore and her project team at the Unit for Studies in
Education Evaluation (USEE), University of Canterbury,
and became available in November 2002. This resource is
made available to schools through funding provided by the
Ministry of Education, the Educational Assessment Research
Unit (EARU) at Otago University, the NZ Education Institute
(NZEI), The New Zealand Council for Educational Research
(NZCER) and USEE.
The
Background
Purpose
The purpose of this project was to select particularly
useful NEMP tasks in all curriculum areas and develop a collection
of visually exciting task sheets for use by classroom teachers.
It accompanies the NEMP-Curriculum Map resource developed
to provide a bridge between the NEMP tasks and the national
curriculum statements.
Procedure
Six teachers, representing a cross-section of teaching
experience and experience with the NEMP materials, were invited
to undertake the selection of tasks and the development of the
task sheets.
A
number of principles were adopted to guide this project.
Namely, that the Teachers' Choice of NEMP Tasks kit
would:
- support the fundamental
philosophy and practices of the NEMP
assessment programme;
- be useful to schools
as a quality resource that could be shared amongst a number
of teachers;
- be linked to the
seven essential skills of the new Zealand Curriculum but
not to specific learning objectives or levels;
- encourage teachers
to consult the NEMP reports more extensively; and
- support the use
of the NEMP-Curriculum Map, a related USEE teacher resource.
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The
teachers worked in flexible teams to select the NEMP tasks, develop
a task sheet format, link the tasks with the New Zealand curriculum
framework and validate the information. It was considered undesirable
to categorise the tasks at particular achievement levels as the
tasks could be adapted easily to different contexts and levels
of difficulty. Twenty-three NEMP tasks were selected as being
particularly:
- exciting;
- innovative;
- good models of an
assessment activity;
- motivating for students;
and
- valuable for providing
information about what children know, can understand and can
do.
The selection of NEMP
tasks was restricted to those for which resources could be created
using the photocopy masters in the kit, resources would be accessible
within a school, or other materials could be used to adapt the
task. Full details on how to prepare and carry out each of the
twenty-three selected assessment tasks are presented with ease
of use in mind, including advice or suggestions for how teachers
may adapt each task for use in their classroom.
These tasks, come highly
recommended by this team of teachers. They
urge other teachers to try them, to begin to explore the
NEMP assessment practices and philosophy, and to explore
other equally valuable NEMP tasks from the annual NEMP reports.
Resources
and Contacts
These kits are unfortunately no longer avaliable.
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