ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING

This project concerns the development of formative assessment techniques in order to improve the teaching and learning experience of first year undergraduate mathematics modules. Black and Wiliam (1998) defined formative assessment as ‘encompassing all those activities undertaken by teachers, and/or by their students, which provide information to be used as feedback to modify the teaching and learning activities in which they are engaged’ (p7-8). The work in our project has two main components: firstly we are creating formative assessment tools for use in the classroom; secondly, we are developing interactive tasks which can be used by students to monitor their own progress and we will further support this progress with the provision of online resources