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How can we assess oracy skills? Challenges, principles and ideas

Should we be assessing the oracy progress our students make? If so, what exactly are we assessing? And how should we go about doing that? Amanda Moorghen discusses key challenges, principles, and useful ideas for schools and teachers
Three challenges: Any assessment of oracy skills in the primary school classroom must overcome three challenges – reliability, validity and usability - Adobe Stock

A best practice guide to teaching oracy in schools: This article is among 18 best practice, advice-driven pieces published in a free-to-download supplement focused on the teaching of oracy skills. The practical 21-page supplement was produced by our sister magazine SecEd and takes a deep dive into everything that oracy education entails, with lots of ideas, advice, and lessons learned. Download your free pdf via www.sec-ed.co.uk/content/downloads/a-seced-best-practice-guide-to-teaching-oracy-in-schools  

 

For most teachers, there is a routine and a set of expectations around the testing of students’ literacy and numeracy – but there are a lot of unresolved questions when it comes to oracy assessment. At the heart of this are three challenges...

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