New on the Site

Managing Assessment for Learning Order Form - a booklet to support the evaluation and development of assessment for learning produced by Midlands AAIA (new edition 2009)

Recent report on the work of AAIA prepared for the Association for Professionals Working in Education and Children’s Trusts (ASPECT)

Read the report of the Expert Group on assessment commissioned by the Secretary of State to review statutory assessment in England.

Read the response to the Expert Group’s report by Ed Balls Secretary of State.

The AAIA Executive's submission to the Expert Group.

 View the full report of the Sutherland Enquiry into Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 National Curriculum assessment in 2008.

Read the OFSTED report Assessment for Learning: the impact of National Strategy support

The condition and future of primary education in England
The Cambridge Primary Review

Read the final report of the Primary Review chaired by Sir Jim Rose.

 DCSF press announcement of 14.10.08 concerning the end of statutory key stage 3 tests and school accountability changes.

 Secretary of State's Letter concerning the end of statutory key stage 3 tests and school accountability changes.

Midlands AAIA has revised its Tricky Points guidance on interpreting the Profile scale points. This guidance has been developed through Profile moderation over the previous five years and has been updated in 2008 following the publication of the revised Profile Handbook.

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Site last updated 25th April 2009.