Key Stage 3National Strategy

Standards and assessment: session 1

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Objectives for the unit

To develop greater consistency in teacher assessment of ICT

To establish a common understanding of what is required to demonstrate achievement at levels 4, 5 and 6

To establish common language and understanding about pupil attainment and National Curriculum levels

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Objectives for session 1

To identify the key features of assessment in ICT

To identify strategies for improving assessmentin ICT

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Issues in assessment of ICT in Key Stage 3

Expectations of pupil achievement at the end of Year 6

Lack of understanding of levels in the National Curriculum

Identifying and exploiting assessment opportunities

Recording achievement in ICT lessons and in other subjects

Assessing the process as well as the outcome of ICT work

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The ICT process

Implement

Analysis of problem and definition of task

Plan and design

Modify

Test and review (evaluate)

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What Ofsted say about assessment

Teachers’ assessment of pupils’ performance at the end of Key Stage 3 is inconsistent. There is insufficient moderation within and between schools and the range of assessment techniques used is too narrow.

Secondary subject report 2000/01: ICT

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What Ofsted say about assessment

Pupils are insufficiently involved in their own assessment and often have too little understanding of what it is they are trying to achieve.

There is insufficient ongoing assessment of pupils’ ICT capability.

Teacher assessment at the end of Key Stage 3 is often unmoderated.

Secondary subject report 2000/01: ICT

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What are the purposes of assessment and testing?

To identify achievement and to indicate where pupils are

To control access to future learning and employment paths

To demonstrate pupil progress against national targets

To plan the next stages in pupils’ learning

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An assessment continuum

formative summative

Improving Proving

Assessment for learning

Questioning and dialogue

Feedback through marking

Peer- and self-assessment

Tasks and tests for formative uses

Assessment of learning

School portfolios

Moderated teacher assessment

National tests and qualifications

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Assessment for learning: definitions

In this paper … the term ‘assessment’ refers to all those activities undertaken by teachers, and by their students in assessing themselves, which provide information to be used as feedback to modify the teaching and learning activities in which they are engaged.

Inside the black box, Black and Wiliam (1998)

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Assessment for learning: definitions

Assessment for learning involves:

gathering and interpreting evidence about students’ learning; and

learners and their teachers using that evidence to decide where students are in their learning, where they are going and how to take the next steps

QCA and the Assessment Reform Group (2001)

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Assessment for learning: key characteristics

Assessment for learning:

is embedded in a view of teaching and learning of which it is an essential part

involves sharing learning goals with pupils

aims to help pupils to know and recognise the standards they are aiming for

involves pupils in [peer- and] self-assessment

provides feedback which leads to pupils recognising their next steps and how to take them

involves both teacher and pupils reviewing and reflecting on assessment data [information]

Assessment Reform Group (1999)

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Positive impact

Pupils clear about lesson objectives

Pupils using criteria to enable judgements

Pupils using positive criticism to support their judgements and modifications

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Teaching strategies that could have been used

use of plenary for reflection

matching of learning objectives to individuals

greater checking of pupils understanding

more focus on learning objectives as well as criteria

greater challenge for some pupils

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Objectives for session 1

To identify the key features of assessment in ICT

To identify strategies for improving assessmentin ICT