Helping Carmarthenshire schools Ensure Consistency in Teacher Assessment at Key Stages 1,2 and 3

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Helping Carmarthenshireschools Ensure
Consistencyin Teacher Assessment atKey Stages
1,2 and 3

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Current Issues

• The abolition of end of key stage tests
• The New National Curriculum 2008
• External Moderation and Verification at KS3.
• Confidence at Transition - KS2/3
• Implications at end of KS1/Foundation

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Who will the Local Authority work with ?

• All Primary schools will be invited to
  participate. KS1 and KS2
• All subject leaders at KS3 attending Network
  Meetings 2009

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What is the proposal?

• School Improvement Officers and Associate School
  Improvement Officers will work with Primary
  schools to jointly evaluate the effectiveness of
• The schools assessment policy
• Internal standardisation process
• Internal moderation process
• KS2/3 moderation
• Training provision

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The Evaluation Report

• One day in school to jointly evaluate assessment
  process. One half day to complete a report
• A written evaluation set against the criteria
  with jointly agreed recommendations for future
  actions by the school to help ensure consistency.

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What Families of schools should agree

• Identify two Family Assessment Coordinators.
• One Primary and one Secondary.
• Coordinate and facilitate portfolio and
  moderation activities
• 4 days training. January 09-Autumn 2009

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Secondment of a primary leader

• A Primary Head or Deputy
• Ensures participation of all
• Promotes Assessment Good practice
• Fosters Assessment for Learning
• Develops whole school approaches to Learning and
  assessment
• In post April 2009 for one year

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KS3 Network meetings

• Agree subject exemplar portfolios
• Appropriate for the new National Curriculum
• Moderate samples of previously levelled work from
  individual schools
• At least one or possibly two network meetings
  wholly dedicated to this work
• Putting Exemplar Portfolios on-line

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ESTYN and The Revised Assessment arrangements

• As part of your analysis of school
• arrangements for assessing and reporting
• on pupils progress, you should consider
• schools transition plans
• the evidence of internal moderation meetings
• the evidence of school cluster moderation
• the outcome of the verifiers visit in secondary
  schools
• Guidance is also given on identifying the key
  principles for effective Assessment for Learning.

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Criteria 1. Schools assessment policy.
The school assessment policy complies with
statutory assessment requirements including
Internal standardisation and moderation
procedures (core subjects) KS2 and 1 KS2/3 and
KS2 family moderation arrangements for core
subjects Meets statutory Recording and
Reporting requirements The policy also covers
arrangements for monitoring and evaluating both
formative and summative assessment  
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Criteria 2. Internal standardisation

•    School Subject standardisation portfolios
  in place covering the necessary range with
  sufficient, appropriate examples of
  pupil work
• Standardisation is an on-going process-
  portfolios updated at least annually
• All teachers (Y1-6) are involved in
  standardisation work
• Standardisation portfolios for core
  subjects represent the shared
  understanding of all teachers
• Family Portfolio available (on line?) and used
  by teachers in school

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Criteria 3. Internal moderation

• A range of evidence is used to determine the
  best fit NC level of
  individual pupils at the end of both
  key stages. Not simply reliant on an end of
  Key stage test
• Learner profiles or similar are used to
  assist end of key stage
  judgements
• Pupil levels are moderated by more than just
  the Y6 teachers
• Overall subject levels take account of
  aggregation of separate AT outcomes as outlined
  in the current KS2/3 Assessment advice
• Foundation assessment arrangements are followed
  based on advice from LEA and DCELLS

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Criteria 4. KS2/3 Family moderation

• Arrangements for core subject moderation
  meetings are in
  place and the school is fully
  participating for all 4 core subjects
  in at least one family.
• Internal and Family group moderation
  arrangements reinforce each other

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Criteria 5. Training

• Scope and extent of training undertaken
• Extent of sharing of good practice
• Extent of the use of statutory guidance
  materials