Designing Inclusive Assessment in Schools: A Guide to Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Practice

Written by teachers and teacher educators, this book presents practice-focused ideas and provocative questions to help teachers plan for inclusive curriculum and assessment within key learning areas in school education.

Providing content on specific disciplines including geography, history, mathematics, science, English, and the Arts, this book supports teachers with hands-on examples for creating inclusive assessment practices in schools. There are additional sections on interdisciplinary perspectives delivering practical strategies for assessing students who use English as an additional language, being inclusive in relation to gender and sexual diversity, using a variety of technologies to promote inclusivity, and applying inclusive assessment in rural, regional, and remote contexts. Each chapter is designed around problems encountered by teachers, practical responses, and recommendations for practice. The authors address Australian Indigenous perspectives, gender and diversity, rural and remote school systems, and translanguaging for multicultural contexts.

Engaging and easy to read, this book is essential reading for pre- and in-service teachers seeking to make an impactful contribution to inclusive education in their classrooms.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Inclusive assessment in action

Part I – Disciplinary practices

2. Unlocking history for all: Achieving inclusivity in the history classroom through Assessment for Learning (AfL)

3. Designing inclusive Assessment for Learning in English Language Arts

4. Daily Discourse: Empowering every student in mathematics through Assessment for Learning

5. Supporting children’s spatial understanding through technology: The importance of dialogical exchange analysed through inclusive research

6. A place for all: Inclusive practices in Arts assessment

7. Learning and assessment in school science: Assistive technologies for diverse learners

8. Inclusive practice and geographical assessment: Practical tips to increase task accessibility

Part II – Interdisciplinary practices

9. Indigenous perspectives in assessment: Applying a place-based approach

10. Queer(y)ing primary assessment: Bodies, genders, and sexuality diversity

11. Embracing translanguaging in designing inclusive assessments with learners of English as an additional language or dialect

12. Spotlighting rural and remote inclusive assessment: Systemic perspectives from the field

Part III – Future practice

13. Inclusive classroom assessment and social justice