**APOLOGIES
FOR CROSS POSTING**
Just
to remind you the NIACE Expert Seminar- Improving Formative Assessment will
still be held on Thursday 18th September, if you have not already
booked your place yet you can do this by logging on to: http://www.niace.org.uk/conferences
Improving Formative
Assessment
Thursday 18
September 2008, 10:00-15:45
St John
Centre, Bankfield House, 132 New Walk, Leicester LE1 7JA
Participants
fee: £129.00 (includes lunch, tea/coffee. NIACE does
not charge VAT on conferences)
This seminar
was organised in May 2008 and was very popular and well received. Due to
demand, it is being organised once again. The expert seminar is being
organised within the wider context of research and development work about
effective formative assessment practices within adult learning.
This
seminar will give practitioners an opportunity to learn about effective
formative assessment from an expert in the field and consider methods of formative assessment and their
practical application.
The event will be of particular
interest to all literacy, language and numeracy practitioners, teacher
educators and trainers.
For more
information, to download an application form or to reserve a place online,
visit the NIACE website:
http://www.niace.org.uk/conferences
Enquiries to
NIACE Conferences Team - Tel: 0116 204 2833
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Kathryn
Ecclestone’s recent research project when at the “Improving
Formative Assessment ”makes a strong case for the importance of effective
formative assessment practices in teaching and learning. They make a tangible difference to learners’
achievement. However, formative assessment skills are not always included in
teacher education programmes and practitioners may lack confidence in using
formative assessment practices as a result.
The
event aims to: