Assessment




The Primary Science Teaching Trust TAPs project provides some assessment activities with descriptors for working towards, expected and greater depth outcomes which you can find here 


  • 2017-2018 Teacher assessment at the end of KS1 Here 
  • 2017-2018 Teacher assessment at the end of KS2 Here.
  • Exemplification (2016) KS1 Here
  • Exemplification (2016) KS2 Here









NfER Review of Assessment for Learning in Primary Science.

https://www.ase.org.uk/plan

ASE's PLAN Matrices
These give very useful exemplification of what secure attainment looks like for different National Curriculum science topics.



http://www.slideshare.net/ash77/assessment-for-learning-activities1

Assessment for Learning Activities
A comprehensive powerpoint that gives simple descriptions of many assessment techniques. By Mike Gershon


Downloadable Resources

Mike Gershon's powerpoint that gives a short overview of loads of different AfL techniques.

A useful collection of categorised verbs. Helpful when writing learning objectives.

This powerpoint includes a recap of Bloom's Taxonomy and an introduction to SOLO taxonomy and how it can be used for assessment.

These sheets demonstrate how SOLO taxonomy can be used to assess children's levels of understanding.



(Keep physics at KS1)



Similar to above but with blanks section so it can be used to create a science assessment document for any learning objectives or performance descriptors.

Created by Karen Beswick at the University on Manchester, this is an audit of KS1 to KS3 National Curriculum subject knowledge.

The following links are documents that can be used for keeping records of assessment against NC objectives. Available both as Word documents or more flexible Excel documents.

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