Project Abstract
The project aims to enhance our understanding of how pre-service teachers learn to use assessment in the service of students'/children's learning. Specifically the project seeks to identify what pre-service teacher believe and understand about using assessment for learning at entry and exit from their programmes; it will document and disseminate how pre-service teachers learn to enhance their use of assessment for learning through initial teacher education programmes; it will make recommendations to assist teacher education programmes to increase the likelihood of graduating assessment capable teachers. he project is a collaborative study involving researchers at the University of Auckland, the University of Canterbury, the University of Waikato and the University of Otago. It will run for three years from 2010.
