Assessment of School Learning: Professional Training Module for School Teams

The module was written by four members of the pedagogical support service of the Direction départementale de l'éducation en Artibonite and the pedagogical adviser of PEIA, with funding from the Canadian International Development Agency, and published in 2005. It belongs to a training program for basic school staff and was designed for teachers working with over-age pupils in an accelerated program, though it states that it can be used in other training settings. The foreword says the absence of a policy for assessing pupils' learning is one of the problems of the Haitian school system, and that the ministry's school calendar provides four stages at the end of which a summative assessment is to be organized.

The content has six blocks: the notion of assessment, pedagogical assessment, the taxonomy of educational objectives including Bloom's taxonomy, the steps of planning an examination, the test, and the form of test items. A second section gives a trainer's toolbox of group activities.