National Teaching and Learning
Change Programme
Improving teaching and learning in Adult Learning

Themes | Assessment | Drivers for change | RARPA: a summary

Themes

• Introduction
• Assessment
  • Drivers for change
    • RARPA: the five stages
    • RARPA: a summary
  • Initial assessment
  • Formative assessment
  • Summative assessment
  • Assessing learners' achievement
  • Choosing the right assessment method for the job
  • Assessment design and practice
  • Preparing for assessment
  • Developing your assessment strategy
  • Feedback
• Improving teaching and learning
• Planning learning and reviewing progress
• E-learning and e-assessment

RARPA: a summary

• The learner is at the centre of the RARPA approach.
• The purpose of RARPA is to improve the quality of the learner's experience.
• The application of RARPA should be fit-for-purpose: you can adapt it to suit your learners, the length of the programme and the nature of the subject or discipline.
• The approach, both in the five-stage process and in the quality assurance of learning, is meant to be straightforward and free of unnecessary bureaucracy.
• The approach should complement and sit within existing processes for quality assurance and learner recording.
• The five-stage process is mapped to the revised Common Inspection Framework and should encourage effective self-assessment and the gathering of evidence of effective learning.

From: 'Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement in Non-accredited Learning', published by the Learning and Skills Council in July 2005.