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Assessment

Applications of assessment

As student teachers begin to spend more time in the classroom, working alongside school colleagues, they can be asked to gather information about different applications of assessment, monitoring, record-keeping and local/national statistical information e.g.

Assessment

  • pupils are asked to re-write very specific sections of their work in the light of comments during a lesson
  • lessons have allocated times for pupils to read and implement changes based on assessments
  • drafting time and time for peer and self assessment is built into schemes of work
  • differentiation is fine-tuned in relation to success criteria and pupil prior/current attainment
  • lesson plans are adapted in the light of evidence of pupil learning
  • subsequent schemes of work are adapted in response pupil progression in current scheme of work
  • pupils and teachers use Assessing Pupil Progress grids to help identify strengths and areas for development in a portfolio of work

Monitoring and record keeping
  • as an aid to differentiation
  • as an aid to planning
  • as an aid to establishing progression

Local/national statistical information
  • how SATs grades, CAT scores, the register of special needs, EAL,YELLIS, ALLIS are used to develop individual records of pupil achievement and set future targets

As the year progresses, student teachers also benefit from opportunities to take part in standardising meetings and co-mark examination scripts or coursework.

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