Assessment in inclusive settings - Phase 2

The end point of phase one of the Agency Assessment in Inclusive Settings project was a discussion and then an explanation of the concept of inclusive assessment as well as a series of recommendations for inclusive assessment policy and practice. The goal of phase two project work was to develop and also go deeper into the findings from phase one in order to examine how inclusive assessment can be put into practice by exploring inter-connected themes: supporting teachers; organising schools; methods and tools for involving different actors in assessment processes.

The methodology used in phase 2 work involved project experts working in teams with the staff of five ‘case study’ sites – school districts, or regions, clusters of schools, resource centres and the schools they worked with and not individual schools. These case study teams agreed to host visits, as well as work on aspects of their assessment practice during an intervention period. The intention was to explore in depth school level assessment practice and how this inter-related to regional and national level support structures and policy. 

The visits and the work of the teams of experts led to a range of practical suggestions on the implementation of inclusive assessment. Information from the five case study sites is available from the following links:

• Austria
• Denmark
• France
• Germany
• United Kingdom

The end point of the Assessment phase 2 work was a major conference of more than 150 participants representing 29 countries, in Limassol, Cyprus, 23rd and 24th October 2008. During the meeting experts from across Europe presented examples of their work. These and other materials are available from the dedicated page of the Assessment In Inclusive Settings Dissemination Conference web page.

All of the work conducted in phase 2 of the project led to the preparation of a pack of materials that presents a synthesis of information on different aspects of putting inclusive assessment into practice:

The materials have all been prepared as a result of the Agency project Assessment in Inclusive Settings involving experts from 25 countries – Austria, the Flemish and French speaking communities of Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, the German Bundesländer, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom (England and Wales).

The aim of the materials in this pack is to provide practitioners and policy makers with materials and resource information exploring how assessment that supports inclusion can be implemented.

For each of these documents there is a pdf file and a graphics file version. Click on the links below to download the files in any of the 21 Agency languages. 

• Outline Indicators for Inclusive Assessment
• Cyprus Recommendations on Inclusive Assessment
• Assessment for Learning and Pupils with Special Educational Needs
• Putting Inclusive Assessment into Practice
• Implementing Inclusive Assessment

An extended, more in depth version of the following paper is available in English only:

Assessment for Learning and Pupils with Special Educational Needs