Formative group assessments

Well, even though it only feels like we have just started the term, we are already in the middle of some of our formative assessments.

These particular ones are with our third year crafts cluster students. The assessment groups are of mixed practice and it allows the students to see that we are not defined by process, but by practice.

We talk about practice at Hereford, as we understand that all making is just communication and expression.

On today's round of formatives, we have a nice mix of blacksmithing, ceramics, woodworking and jewellery scale objects.

Just to give you a bit of an idea of how we do assessments here, it's quite informal and all members of the group contribute to the feedback.