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2016 teacher assessment exemplification: KS1 mathematics

GOV.UK – Exemplification material for mathematics to support accurate teacher assessment at the end of key stage 1 in 2016.

2016 teacher assessment exemplification: KS2 mathematics

GOV.UK – Exemplification material for mathematics to support accurate teacher assessment at the end of key stage 2 in 2016.

Primary school accountability

GOV.UK – Technical guidance on primary accountability and school-level progress measures.

Times tables ‘to be tested by age 11’

BBC News Education – Every pupil in England will be tested on their times tables before leaving primary school, under government plans.  Pupils aged 11 will be expected to know their tables up to 12×12, and will be tested using an “on-screen check”. TES News – All pupils to sit new times table test as part […]

Rochford Review: interim recommendations

GOV.UK – This report provides guidance to schools about how to report statutory assessment outcomes for pupils working below the standard of the national curriculum tests at key stages 1 and 2. GOV.UK – Pre-key stage 1: pupils working below the test standard. GOV.UK – Pre-key stage 2: pupils working below the test standard.

National curriculum assessments at key stage 2: 2015 (revised)

GOV.UK – Revised information on the 2015 national curriculum assessment at key stage 2, including breakdowns by pupil characteristics.

Teacher assessment moderation: requirements for key stage 2

GOV.UK – Guidance and requirements to support schools and local authorities involved in key stage 2 teacher assessment and statutory moderation in 2016.

Teacher assessment moderation: requirements for key stage 1

GOV.UK – Guidance and requirements to support schools and local authorities involved in key stage 1 teacher assessment and statutory moderation in 2016.

DfE updates – STA updates

EFA training – videos from 2016 key stage 1 and key stage 2 assessment arrangements webinars plus videos for 2016 national curriculum tests and assessments, 2016 interim teacher assessment frameworks and NCA tools short user guide.

Key stage 2 national curriculum test review outcomes: 2015

GOV.UK – Provisional information on marking reviews for the 2015 key stage 2 national curriculum tests.

Dear Ms Morgan: in grammar there isn’t always one right answer

The Guardian – I can understand that you may not have had a chance to look at the 2016 sample test for key stage 2 English grammar, punctuation and spelling. It suffers from a severe case of terminology-itis.

Ministers consider the return of key stage 1 national tests

TES News – Ministers are to consider the introduction of more “rigorous” assessments for seven-year-olds, including a possible return to national testing. BBC News Education – Morgan: Tougher tests and top teachers in weak schools. The Telegraph – All test scores from seven-year-olds ‘to be sent to government’, under plans being considered.  Review to be announced […]

Ministers consider national tests for seven-year-olds

The Guardian – Ministers are considering more rigorous assessments for seven-year-olds – including the reintroduction of national tests – as part of an overhaul of primary school appraisal to being announced by education secretary Nicky Morgan.

Tories in school tests U-turn

The Sunday Times – Tough new tests and assessments for England’s primary school children may be scrapped in a wide-ranging review after opposition from unions and head teachers in what many will see as a significant government U-turn.

Nicky Morgan: 100,000 children will forced to re-sit Sats tests

TheTelegraph – More than 100,000 children who fail their primary school Sats tests every year will be forced to re-sit the assessments when they start secondary school.