A Framework for Developing Teachers’ Assessment Skills

This Framework document addresses a range of issues.  The purposes here are to:

1. provide a briefing which locates Assessment within European policy developments
2. provide information relating to the principles and types of Assessment and their applications
3. develop and create teaching and learning resources to support training programmes in Assessment for teachers and trainers
4. provide samples of possible training programmes in Assessment based on the design, implementation, testing, and evaluation of training approaches and materials used in pilot programmes of training delivered in both Lithuania and Finland
5. provide working definitions and examples of key concepts