Assessment in Australia's Schoola: Explain the processes and strategies you would adopt to create a balanced approach to assessment in the primary English learning area.

When planning a program for the primary English learning area, it is important to begin with determining students' prior learning: what literacy behaviours are established, and what literacy behaviours need to be demonstrated. If knowledge of student's language needs and abilities are to influence our programming, how, then do we find out what those needs and abilities are? (Gibbons 1991, 282 Reader, 379). The instrument for gathering such knowledge is known as assessment, and in order to use …

…integrated approach, for example, then student self-assessment and peer assessment may well be part of the program. When used correctly, assessment can also provide teachers with information about the effectiveness of their own teaching practices. It is the information determined from these assessment strategies that will shape the development of further planning, and as such, makes assessment and evaluation processes such a pivotal role both in the planning cycle, and the teaching and learning process.