Effective Assessment

This course provides practitioners with a solid understanding of assessment, what it is and how best to utilise it. Practitioners will leave with a thorough understanding of assessment and a practical toolkit to make assessment work effectively for them.

Course Aims

• To provide a practitioners with an introduction to assessment.
• To ensure that practitioners have a thorough knowledge of the principles of effective assessment and how to apply them in practice.

Course Content

The session will cover;

• Assessment – What is it?
• Why bother?
• Assessment Frameworks – What are they?
• Principles of effective assessment
• Creating an environment for effective assessment to take place
• Existing frameworks
• What next?

Duration

One Day

Who is it for?

All Children’s Workforce practitioners, Connexions Personal Advisers, Youth Workers, Youth Offending Team Workers, Careers Specialist Staff, Social Workers, Housing Advice Workers, Care Workers, and all other professional working with young people