on November 13, 2011
DfE Teaching and Learning – 2012 Assessment and reporting arrangements for Early Years Foundation Stage Profile and Key Stage 1. Assessment and reporting arrangements – key stage 1.
Posted in Statutory Assessment
on November 11, 2011
Northern Ireland Executive, Department of Education – new providers of computer based assessments.
Posted in Statutory Assessment
on November 4, 2011
BBC News – More than 35,000 Sats papers taken by England’s 11-year-olds last May were sent back for re-marking.
Posted in News, Statutory Assessment
on October 18, 2011
QCDA – October 2011 stakeholder update.
Posted in Assessment Matters, Examinations and Qualifications, Statutory Assessment
on October 18, 2011
DfE – National Curriculum Assessment updates 18 October 2011.
Posted in Statutory Assessment
on September 26, 2011
TES article – To ministers’ delight, evaluation reveals support among schools.
Posted in News, Primary, Statutory Assessment
on September 17, 2011
DfE news – Schools Minister Nick Gibb announces that the Standards and Testing Agency (STA), a new executive agency of the Department for Education, will commence operating on Monday 3rd October.
Posted in News, Statutory Assessment
on September 17, 2011
DfE news – Thousands of children will receive the extra support they need to become confident, fluent readers thanks to the Department for Education’s new phonics check, an independent study today reveals.
Posted in News, Primary, Statutory Assessment
on September 8, 2011
DfE Pedagogy and Practice – The intention is to introduce a new, statutory phonics screening check for all pupils in Year 1 this academic year. The check will take place in a week-long window in mid-June 2012.
Posted in News, Primary, Statutory Assessment
on September 8, 2011
DfE Teaching and Learning – Following Lord Bew’s independent review of Key Stage 2 testing, assessment and accountability, National Curriculum tests in mathematics and reading will be administered in line with previous years’ arrangements. Interim arrangements will be in place for writing in 2012, ahead of fully implementing Lord Bew’s recommendations for writing in 2013.
Posted in News, Primary, Statutory Assessment
on September 3, 2011
Department of Education Northern Ireland Circular Number: 2011/15 – This circular is to advise schools of the arrangements relating to Interactive Computerised Assessment System (InCAS)assessments for pupils in years 4 to 7 in autumn 2011, and the associated arrangements for reporting assessment outcomes to parents.
Posted in Assessment of Learning, Statutory Assessment
on August 14, 2011
TES article – Conservative party-commissioned report says Year 6 tests should be scrapped – after Bew review says they should stay.
Posted in News, Primary, Statutory Assessment
on August 7, 2011
TES article – Results in the science sample tests rebounded this year following a sharp fall when they were introduced in 2010.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, National Data, Statutory Assessment
on August 7, 2011
TES Article – Nursery managers and LA advisers voice their fears about slimmed-down framework.
Posted in Early Years, News, Statutory Assessment
on August 2, 2011
DfE Research and Statistics Gateway – Interim Results for Key Stage 2 & 3 National Curriculum Assessments in England, 2010/11.
Posted in National Data, News, Performance Data, Statutory Assessment
A booklet to support the evaluation and development of assessment for learning produced by Midlands AAIA (new edition 2009).