The advice in this article applies to schools who have designed their own internal assessments.
Establish the purpose of each assessment
Your whole-school approach to assessment will contain core principles that are consistently applied across your school. You'll also need to evaluate assessment needs on a subject-by-subject basis.
This is because the:
- Content can vary across different subjects (for example, art, maths and RE need different formats)
- Proportion of lessons differs, so if you use the same number of assessments across all subjects, those with a lower number of lessons might end up with lots of assessments, with few gaps in between
You might use assessment to:
- Help pupils embed and use knowledge fluently
- Check pupil understanding
- Gauge pupils' different starting points and gaps in knowledge
- Inform teaching, based on any gaps in understanding or knowledge