As half-term slowly approaches, I’m currently planning my summative assessments for the majority of my classes.
It doesn’t seem so long ago that I was introducing myself to a group of wide-eyed students, and it is hard to believe that in this short time we have covered a good portion of the schemes of work.
When considering key stage 4, I have been having regular doubts and fears about their end of unit assessments. I am very lucky to work in a school where numbers and data aren’t the dominating rhetoric – grades aren’t enforced on students, and they are mainly kept for monitoring and teaching purposes. And as I’m sure we’re all aware, measuring progress over a longer period is becoming more valued in schools.
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