Progression & Assessment

Progression and Assessment (Key Stage 3): Progression simply means ‘getting better’. History teachers need models of what progression in history looks like but many contrasting models exist and lively debates continue.  All history teachers therefore need to know enough to understand those debates and join them. History teachers and history education researchers have traditions of defining and testing goals for students, debating how far these should relate to substantive knowledge and/or disciplinary thinking, researching typical routes pupils take towards them and working out optimal paths to help them get there more securely. Read more

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  • Progression & Assessment without Levels - Guide

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    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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  • Progression - more than 'could do better'?

    Multipage Article

    Some notion of progression underpins all teaching as well as curriculum, course design, work scheme construction lesson planning, evaluation and assessment.  But what do we mean by progression and how do we help our students achieve it? Does our assessment reflect progression? Do our reports to parents comment on progression? In this E-CPD...

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