Assessment for learning (AfL) 8 schools project

The Assessment for learning (AfL) eight schools project was an action research project (July 2005 – October 2006) which sought to identify what helps pupils develop as motivated and effective learners (through professional dialogue and collaborative working with teachers, school leaders and LAs). It also sought to identify how AfL can be successfully developed whole school.

The project has yielded evidence that AfL improves pupil progress over the short and medium term and impacts on standards in the longer term. The project findings indicate that fundamental to developing AfL in the classroom is developing the independent learner, and fundamental to developing the leadership and management of whole school change is developing distributed leadership. The intended audience is teachers, leaders in schools, those who advise and support schools and national policy makers.

Schools were selected from across eight local authorities in eight regions. The eight schools were from a range of contexts: high and low-attaining; low, average and high contextual value added (CVA) scores; improving, declining, steady and varying standards; urban, suburban and rural; one in special measures and another recently emerged from special measures.

• School A
• School B
• School C
• School D
• School E
• School F
• School G
• School H

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