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Primary assessment and accountability

When is a tracker not a tracker?

November 15, 2016November 11, 2016Oxford Primary

The last twelve months have seen the world of assessment data in primary education change beyond recognition. The removal of National Curriculum levels, Average Points Scores and changes to the curriculum structure entirely, has thrown many schools and providers into a spin over what data means. With the government deciding that they would not be […]

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Measuring progress fairly: thoughts on the coasting schools measures

November 3, 2016October 9, 2018Oxford Primary

The 2016 progress measures for the new ‘coasting schools’ category were finally revealed in October in the DfE’s updated Primary Accountability publication. The thresholds are -2.5 for reading and mathematics and -3.5 for writing, and schools must be above in all three subjects. The vast majority of schools will already know that they can’t be a coasting […]

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Assessment and accountability: no change… for a change!

November 1, 2016October 9, 2018Oxford Primary

What’s going ahead and what’s not The statement to Parliament by Justine Greening and the publication of the final report of the Rochford Review on October 19th, and the appearance of the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP) results one day later mean that we now have clarity on two fronts. Firstly, we now know all the national assessment outcomes […]

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What have we learnt from the new assessment and accountability arrangements? Practical next steps

September 15, 2016March 19, 2018Oxford Primary

The first few weeks of a new school year usually involves both looking forward and looking back. The summer of 2016 saw an almost completely new set of national assessment and accountability arrangements and schools are analysing how they’ve done and pondering the implications for the years ahead. We don’t have all the results yet […]

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How was it for you? Reflecting on the primary assessment season 2016

June 22, 2016June 24, 2016Oxford Primary

It’s almost over. Almost exactly four years after Michael Gove formally announced the abolition of National Curriculum level descriptions, the first use of the new statutory assessment arrangements is nearing completion. Children in Years 2 and 6 have done their statutory tests, external moderation visits to selected schools are in full swing and teacher assessment […]

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Working together to help assessment work for pupils and parents

November 18, 2015January 14, 2016Oxford Primary

Many of the Government’s statements about assessment under the National Curriculum 2014 have stressed that, with the exception of the national, statutory arrangements (e.g. tests and teacher assessment at the end of Key Stages 1 and 2 and the Phonics Screening Check) each school should determine its own assessment policy and practice. Here’s a typical […]

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Mental Mathematics – Part 1

April 17, 2015March 24, 2016Oxford Maths 1 Comment

Many years ago, when I worked as a staff nurse in a busy (what other kind is there?) A&E unit, it would sometimes be necessary to assess a patient’s level of attention following certain types of trauma. Serial-7 One of the ways of doing this was to get the patient to count down from 100 […]

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