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• The KS3 ICT test development project
• Using IT to transform assessment
• Sue Walton, National Assessment Agency
• Glasgow, May 2006

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Some types of e-Assessment

• Transferring paper-based examinations to onscreen
  delivered tests paper to screen
• Using technology to develop and adapt the types
  of questions used in assessment and examinations
  limited modification
• Innovation in assessment and examinations
  greater flexibility in the availability of
  assessment information in the classroom -
  transformation

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Underpinning assumptions

• The test might become high stakes at some time in
  the future
• The test would need to be accessed by 4000
  schools and 600,000 pupils at any one time

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Timeline

• 2004 Technical Pilot
• 2005 Pilot
• 2006 National Pilot
• 2007 Full National Pilot
• 2008 Statutory Test

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The test software system
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Three system components

• Central Point System (centrally hosted)
• test distribution, marking and reporting
• Administration Point System (local school server)
• scheduling, invigilation, results, reporting
• Delivery Point System (school clients)
• ICT Toolkit
• walled garden test environment

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Flexible administration

• Compatible with school Management Information
  Systems
• Electronic registration and timetabling
• 4-week window for the test rather than one fixed
  date

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What are we assessing?

• NC programme of study
• Processes as well as skills, knowledge and
  understanding
• The NC programme of study covers
• Finding things out
• Developing ideas and making things happen
• Exchanging and sharing information
• Reviewing, modifying and evaluating work as it
  progresses

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About the ICT test

• Onscreen
• Secure walled garden
• Virtual toolkit of applications

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The secure walled garden

• Necessary because
• the test needs to be secure
• we need to prevent pupils from leaving the
  test environment
• we need to be able to capture the actions
  pupils take within the test so that they can be
  marked

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Virtual toolkit of applications

• A suite of applications for pupils to use to
  complete their test
• Designed to be generic but similar to the
  applications pupils normally use
• Applications contain the functionality pupils
  would expect to be available

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Virtual toolkit applications available for 2006

• Word processor
• Spreadsheet
• Email
• File manager
• Web browser
• Database
• Presentation
• Control being developed

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So what does the test software look like?

• A look at the 2006 pupil familiarisation
  materials (or see the test demo on
  www.ks3ictpilot.com)

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Further details

• Visit the test website www.ks3ictpilot.com for
  information, copies of the training materials and
  to see a demo of the test
• Email ks3ict_at_qca.org.uk or Sue.Walton_at_naa.org.uk