Assessment

Level descriptors are no longer statutory to describe, define or assess progress in history. In this section you will find a range of articles and guides to help you make sense of what it means to get better at history to inform planning, monitoring and assessment of progress in the subject.

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  • Assessment in Primary History - Guidance

    Multipage Article

    Whilst a number of schools have had well-considered assessment procedures for primary history, these represented a minority.  With the new national curriculum, the old level descriptions have been replaced by a single sentence attainment target which states that "by the end of each key stage, pupils are expected to know,...

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  • Progression & Assessment without Levels - Guide

    Multipage Article

    In the 2014 national curriculum for primary and secondary history one of the key differences is that, for the first time since 1991, there are no level descriptions against which you can assess pupils' progress.  The new attainment target says simply that: ‘By the end of each key stage, pupils...

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