Collaborative action research as a tool for generating formative feedback on teachers’ classroom assessment practice: the KREST project

Abstract

This paper sets out to explore science teachers’ classroom assessment practices and outlines some of the tensions and synergies in changing assessment practices. It describes episodes from a collaborative action research project with science teachers designed to support the strengthening of classroom assessment practices – the King’s Researching Expertise in Science Teaching project. This paper focuses on how the collaborative action research project functioned as a tool for generating formative feedback for the teachers and how this feedback supported the teachers in making sense of and further developing their classroom assessment practices.

Keywords:

• formative assessment
• collaborative action research
• reflective practitioner
• professional learning