DfE Teaching and Learning – Formula for calculating an overall English level for each child.
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Assessment for Learning: A Guide for School Governors
A booklet written for school governors explaining the essential features of assessment for learning and answering questions such as 'Why does AfL matter to children and their parents/carers ?' ' How does AfL relate to end of year and end of key stage assessment?' and 'How will governors know that AfL is happening in school?'
‘Has helped to inform and enthuse us and also realise that understanding data is one thing, but responding to the questions it poses is quite another.’ Chair of governors, federation of infant and primary schools
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Assessing without levels
By david on June 17, 2013
DfE Teaching and learning - At the NCTL ‘Seizing Success’ conference on 13 June, the Secretary of State spoke about schools’ ongoing assessment under the new national curriculum, in advance of the consultation on primary assessment and accountability.
Category: News, Primary, Statutory Assessment
Classroom practice – Success is ultimately all in the mindset
By david on June 15, 2013
TES article – It pays to have high expectations for every student and to make them believe that they can succeed on their own.
Category: Assessment for Learning, Assessment Matters
Confusion in the Ranks: how good are England’s schools ?
By david on June 15, 2013
The Sutton Trust – report on international performance tables. The Telegraph – International education league tables ‘are misleading’.
Category: Assessment Matters, International Comparisons, News