Introduction to the Resource Pack

The CD assessment resource pack contains

(1) a short theoretical background and basic information on assessment and evaluation for teachers and workplace instructors, including self-assessment,

(2) outlines of pilot training programmes for teachers, workplace instructors, and mixed groups of teachers and trainers,

(3) assessment materials and resources to promote good assessment practice, together with

(4) examples of those practices.

The key material of the CD is available in English, Finnish, German, Lithuanian, and Polish. Some additional materials are available only in their language of origin. All the CD contents can also be accessed directly through a dedicated website http://salpro.salpaus.fi/tes/

The materials are intended to lend themselves to flexible application, so that fit-for-purpose programmes can be created to meet specific needs and requirements of different target groups and final users (e.g., among others, vocational teachers in secondary schools, work-based trainers and assessors, teacher training organizations) to assess students’ and trainees’ skills in colleges or companies.

This Leonardo da Vinci project addresses the priority call for the ‘continuous training of teachers and trainers’ (or continuing professional development: CPD) by creating pilot training programmes for teacher training that emphasize the new kind of assessment skills needed in European countries facing immigration or emigration. The issue is meant to be approached in the context of new teaching methods developed in European countries in order to support economic development and raise the attractiveness and flexibility of vocational education and training.

Since in many European countries there is a growing need for identifying and recognizing formal and non-formal learning, one of the project’s key aims is to enable teachers (especially those in vocational adult education) and workplace instructors to face the new demands related to assessment and evaluation, such as the ability to identify students’ prior learning and assess their competences in order to support their individualized, tailor-made training paths.

This project objective was achieved through a series of training seminars, workshops and pilot projects organized for teachers of vocational education and workplace instructors in Finland and Lithuania. These project activities resulted in the present CD-Rom assessment resource pack. It contains (1) a short theoretical background and basic information on assessment and evaluation for teachers and workplace instructors, including self-assessment, (2) outlines of pilot training programmes for teachers, workplace instructors, and mixed groups of teachers and trainers, (3) assessment materials and resources to promote good assessment practice, together with (4) examples of those practices. The key material of the CD-Rom is available in English, Finnish, German, Lithuanian, and Polish. Some additional materials are available only in their language of origin.  All the CD-Rom contents can also be accessed directly through a dedicated website http://salpro.salpaus.fi/tes/ . 

The materials created and gathered in the course of this project are intended to lend themselves to flexible application, so that fit-for-purpose programmes can be created to meet specific needs and requirements of different target groups and final users (e.g., among others, vocational teachers in secondary schools, work-based trainers and assessors, teacher training organizations) to assess students’ and trainees’ skills in colleges or companies.