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Assessing English at KS3
Mar 05, 2022 |
Category: assessment
Throughout my career, the de facto approach to assessing English at KS3 has been to use extended writing. After all, this is what students will be faced with in their GCSEs so it kinda made sense that...
Why 'using the curriculum as a progression model' is harder than you think
Sep 08, 2021 |
Category: assessment
Since first hearing the idea that the curriculum should be the model of progression on Michael Fordham's blog, I immediately and instinctively felt that this was right. Of course, I said to myself, we...
Curriculum related expectations: the specificity problem
Nov 21, 2020 |
Category: assessment
If we are going to use the curriculum as a progression model, it's useful to build in checkpoints to ensure students are meeting curriculum related expectations. So far I written about replacing age r...
High jump vs hurdles: Replacing grades with curriculum related expectations
Nov 18, 2020 |
Category: assessment
I've recently argued that one way to ensure schools are explicitly using the curriculum as a progression model is to assess children against curriculum related expectations. Briefly, this means that i...
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