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Goldsmiths College University of London (Technology Education Research Unit)
Assessment of Performance Unit
The Assessment of Performance Unit (APU) was set up in 1975 within the Department of Education and Science (DES) to promote the development of methods of assessing and monitoring the achievement of students at school, and to seek to identify the incidence of underachievement. The APU commissioned research teams to create instruments and methods of assessment and to conduct surveys in five curriculum areas: language, science, mathematics, foreign languages and design and technology. Between 1978 and 1988 surveys were carried out in these areas using samples of children aged 11, 13 (science and foreign language only) and 15 (design and technology), in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In the decade to 1985 there was a gradual shift from monitoring, towards supporting curriculum development through an increasing focus on understanding what enhanced or blocked learning. It was in this climate that APU design and technology was launched. The case for an APU survey in technology education was first proposed in 1979 and in 1980 the DES created a working group to consider the assessment of design and technological abilities.
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The APU report for teachers presents, in concise form, some of the data and findings of the APU surveys of students aged 13.
It includes an outline of the assessment framework, some of the questions which were written to match it, a description of how well, and how differently, pupils responded to them and...
The APU report for teachers presents, in concise form, some of the data and findings of the APU surveys of students aged 15. After outlining the assessment framework (see also Report 2: Science assessment framework, age 13 and 15), the report gives information about the science subjects studies by students in...
This APU report for teachers presents a summary of the main findings likely to be of most interest to teachers from the first two surveys of students at age 11, conducted in 1980 and 1981. It also offers some conclusions about what students at this age were generally able to do, or not, with implications for...
This APU report for teachers focuses on students’ planning of investigations. Although considered important in several respects, Report for Teachers 1 found that little emphasis was given in primary schools to students designing investigations or even planning parts of investigations such as identifying variables...
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| Subject(s) | Design and technology |
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| Age | 11-14, 14-16 |
| Published | 1980 - 1989 |
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| Direct URL | https://www.stem.org.uk/cx5tx |
