The advice in this article applies to schools who have designed their own internal assessments.
Establish the purpose of each assessment
You can have a whole-school approach to assessment that contains general core principles that are consistently applied across the school. But you'll also need to evaluate assessment needs on a subject-by-subject basis. This is because the:
- Content can be very different across different subjects (for example, art, maths and RE need different formats)
- Proportion of lessons differs, so if you use the same amount of assessment across all subjects, those with a low number of lessons might end up with lots of assessments, with little space in between
Make sure your staff are confident on:
- The reasons for setting an assessment
- What useful information or action it can produce
Work through the questions in the download to help you evaluate your school's assessments. The questions are grouped