Assessment in Practice

Teachers' Overall Reflections

The support from school leadership is invaluable to start the internal standardisation process and embed it within your school.
It is advisable to involve all teachers in your school.
The process of internal standardisation through to external moderation requires a significant amount of time and energy.
Having gone through this process, two schools now compile a limited number of pieces of pupil work that have a school coversheet attached. They pass these on from class to class to show progression within and between the levels.
Some teachers found it useful to keep a hand written record of all the assessed activities done in their classroom. These records had a few notes attached, stating what pupils could do to improve their assessed piece of work.
All teachers stressed that planning is the key.