Combining the Affordances of Flipped Continuing Professional Development With a Virtual Learning Environment to Promote Teachers' Formative Assessment Practice

• In Event: 42.084 - Poster Session 8
  In Poster Session: 42.084-6 - Division K Section 8 Poster Session 2

Abstract

Education systems are increasingly characterised by continuous cycles of reform. In the Republic of Ireland, recent reform of lower secondary education aims to modify assessment structures and practices. This study describes a small-scale initiative to support teachers’ assessment literacy through an innovative model of continuing professional development (CPD). Recognising challenges posed by time constraints in schools and the need to optimise practising of assessment skills by teachers in real time, the approach offered potential solutions to age-old problems in CPD. Participants engaged with personalised content facilitated by flipped learning instructional approaches, within a virtual learning environment. The online platform provided support to teachers as they explored, generated, and shared insights about formative assessment practices within a collaborative community of colleagues

Authors

• Jillian Kellough, Trinity College Dublin

• Damian P. Murchan, Trinity College Dublin