Level Madness
July 29, 2008A colleague of mine recently went to a QCA conference about the new curriculum and they revealingly acknowledged that the use of level descriptors at Key Stage 3 are being abused. From a statutory point of view, they only need to be applied at the end of Key Stage 3, so why are we wasting our time applying it here there and everywhere??
This video, shown on TeacherTV, is a classic example of how mad the whole assessment process has become at Key Stage 3.
Tags: assessment, Fortismere, key stage 3, levels
July 30th, 2008 at 5:17 am
I heard that this was the case a while ago. Unfortunately we (teachers/schools?) are pressured into giving regular “levels” feedback to pupils – despite Ruth Butler’s findings that comment-only feedback leads to higher pupil attainment. (Have to dash off now … may add more later … )
October 17th, 2008 at 1:50 am
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