Staff Meeting – Assessing

Students’ Progress

Tuesday 4th November 2014

T&L Newsletter

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What is assessment?

Finding out what students can [knowledge,

understanding and skills] and (more importantly) cannot

do so that timely and effective interventions can be put in

place

8 weeks in…

Pressure points (-)

Time

Expectations

New system

Conversations about assessment (+)

Ofsted guidelines (notes for Inspectors)

Inspectors will:

spend more time looking at the range of pupils’ work to consider

what progress they are making in different areas of the curriculum

talk to leaders about schools’ use of formative and summative

assessment and how this improves teaching and raises

achievement

Accuracy of assessment

In evaluating the accuracy of assessment, we must consider how well:

assessment draws on a range of evidence of what pupils know, understand and

can do in the different aspects of subjects in the curriculum, for example, through

regular testing

leaders ensure the accuracy of assessment through internal and external

standardisation and moderation

schools adopt the best practice of working together to moderate assessment for

year groups and the end of key stages, and to develop common understanding

of attainment and share records at points of transfer (within the context of the revised common transfer file).

In 10 months time…

Sept JulyA S S E S S M E N T

Every 3 to 5 weeks

Coordinated by HOD for

consistency and

moderation, contributing

to Go 4 Schools

SNAPSHOTS taken

regularly throughout

the year at pre-

published times

Assesses “knowledge,

understanding and skills”

Types of Assessment – Carol Anne

Assessment examples and use of

Go4Schools from Departments

Art

Geography

RE

DT

Starting year 9 in Art

All students

complete a

baseline

assessment in the

first week.

Student Assessment Trackers

Go4Schools mirrors the student trackers

Student progress is supported by Teacher Assessment,

Peer and Self Assessment criteria/feedback sheets.

1.

2.

Other examples….

Go4Schools in Geography at KS3

Fairly long units – some take 12weeks, some a half term.

Had AfL strategies embedded – identified ways of using existing AfL

or developing new ones to generate levels/marks for Go4Schools.

Some end of unit assessments are written prose whilst some are

tests. Need to keep as a mix to help students develop skills for GCSE

and beyond.

Test based

Some multiple

choice questions

and others written.

Allows some of the

work to be peer

assessed.

Key Question based

RE’s Approach to Go4Schools

Every student has a cover sheet on

the front of their RE book.

The sheet outlines the Big Idea

Identify (level 3)

Describe (level 4)

Explain (level 5) Apply (level 6)

Analyse (level 7)

Teacher Feedback…

All detailed marking is on the front of the book.

RE teachers will only mark in detail one BIG Question and a formal

assessment for each teaching unit. Formal assessments usually take a full

lesson but BIG Questions can be completed as a 10 minute plenary.

The mark sheet includes….

• A ‘WWW’ and ‘EBI’ comment box

• An effort grade

• A general book comment

• Key Spellings

Teachers and students can clearly

see all the comments that have

been made before and assess

whether feedback has been noted.

Marksheets in Go4Schools

We only record data for the

specific piece of work in

Go4Schools.

All RE teachers are marking the

same pieces of work in detail.

Big questions are weighted

accordingly with the formal

assessments being worth more.

Design Technology

Mid unit review

As we operate a rotation

system in DT these will all

be filled in by the end of

the year but the order is

unique to each group.

Sheet is weighted at 40%

to mirror the GCSE grades.

End of unit review

These grade can be quite

different as student could

be very academic but

might not excel in practical

skills.

Sheet is weighted at 60%

iGCSE in Geography

Teacher

Check

iGCSE in Geography

iGCSE LTCP – with

Assessment Points

Unit 1: Settlement

Unit 1: Settlement

Assessment 1

SMH – Show my Homework

PA –Peer Assessment

TC – Teacher Check

Assessment 2

CW – Classwork

SMH – Show my Homework

TC – Teacher Assessed

Unit 1: Settlement

Assessment 3

SMH – Show my Homework

TA – Teacher Assessed

Unit 1: Settlement

What does this look like in Go4Schools?

Our iGCSE is set up to increase our

accuracy in MEGs

Increasing accuracy over Settlement Unit

Assessment

1 –

SMH/PA/TC

6 marks

Assessment

2 – SMH/PA

12 marks

Assessment

3 - SHM/TA

7 marks

Settlement

Unit

iGCSE

Grade

Our iGCSE is set up to increase our

accuracy in MEGs over the course as well

Increasing in accuracy over year 10 and then the course

Settlement

iGCSE

Grade

Industrial

Systems

iGCSE

Grade

Year 10

Coursework

Population

iGCSE

Grade

Year 10

Exam July MEG

Things to consider when setting up assessments

Make sure you are assessing all the skills required for the

final course e.g. different question papers, question types,

skills that need to be developed for controlled

assessment/coursework.

Moderation of peer/self assessment (sometimes students

are too generous!).

Moderation between teachers (specifically for end of unit

tests).