Course Description: Despite the call for using assessment to promote effective learning, most teachers remain underprepared to conduct classroom-based formative assessment and interpret the summative assessment information for improving instruction as well as learning. Throughout the course, general testing and assessment topics are revisited, extended, interwoven and deconstructed, with the participants’ understanding strengthened by tasks and follow-up questions.   Prerequisites:     Aims:     Requirements for a Certificate: Minimum attendance requirement is 75% of course events. Assessed portfolio work for practical tasks like group and individual planning, observation, demonstration, micro-teaching, discussion and feedback sessions. 1000-word end of course Reflective Essay.   Details:     Course Outline: 810.01 – Teaching, Assessment and Testing 810.02 – Institutional Expectations and Constraints 810.03 – Diagnostic, Formative, Benchmark, and Summative Testing 810.04 – Assessment used as a tool for learning – Performance-based assessment 810.05 – The Theory and Science behind effective assessment for learning 810.06 – Aptitude, Proficiency, Placement, Diagnostic, Achievement tests 810.07 – … Continue reading 810 – Testing and Assessment in Education