Assessment Leader Program

All short courses in the ALP are structured to help you integrate your learning into practice. It will move through four phases:

• Phase 1: Engage. During this phase, you will engage with the course content.
• Phase 2: Collaborate and plan. During this phase you will work with colleagues from your school or within your professional context. You will share what you have learned in the course with your colleagues and then collaborate to plan to implement your learning.

• Phase 3: Implement. During this phase you and your colleagues will implement your learning within your professional context.

• Phase 4: Reflect. You will critically reflect on your experience implementing what you have learned within your professional context. This will form the first entry for your Assessment Portfolio and will be submitted as a Learning Assurance Task as evidence of your learning.

Your facilitator will be with you throughout all the phases to support you.

When you have satisfactorily completed the course, you will be issued with a Certificate of Achievement.

The ALP is for education leaders and teachers who want to develop expertise and leadership in assessment to promote learning for all students.

Unit 1 Foundations of educational assessment

ALP 1 Critical perspectives on assessment

Focuses on the purpose, theory and practice of educational assessment.

ALP 2 Learning progressions

Focuses on learning progressions and the nature of learning progress over time.

Unit 2 Assessment methods and design

ALP 3 Methods and foundations of robust assessment

Focuses on the foundations of designing robust assessment that can be used to monitor learning progress and inform teaching and learning.

ALP 4 Designing tests

Focuses on assessment methods that are typically used in quizzes, tests and exams. You will learn about item writing, test design and development processes, including planning, writing, panelling and administrating the assessment to learners.

ALP 5 Designing judgement-based assessment

Focuses on examining assessment methods that require sophisticated levels of judgement by the assessor, and are therefore prone to subjectivity, such as performance, portfolio and project-based assessment.

Unit 3 Analysing and interpreting assessment evidence

ALP 6 Analysing assessment data

Focuses on the preparation and analysis of assessment data to enable accurate and meaningful
interpretations about learning progress.

ALP 7 Interpreting learning progress and monitoring growth

Focuses on making valid and consistent inferences about learning that are informed by your context.

ALP 8 Making accurate interpretations of learning

Focuses on minimising bias when interpreting learning progress.

Unit 4 Using assessment to promote learning

ALP 9 Using assessment evidence for differentiated learning and teaching

Focuses on how assessment evidence can be used to inform and modify learning and teaching for diverse learning needs.

ALP 10 Developing lifelong learning skills through assessment

Focuses on using assessment as a tool to promote the development of lifelong learning skills.

ALP 11 Communicating evidence of learning

Focuses on ways in which assessment evidence is used to communicate learning progress to stakeholders.