Produced in 2009-2010, Assessing Pupils Progress (APP) was produced by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) and is a structured approach to periodic assessment, written to enable teachers to use diagnostic information about students’ strengths and weaknesses and to track students’ progress.

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As part of the Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) strategy, these packages from the National Strategies were designed to provide assessment activities to use as classroom lessons. Each lesson has indicated levels, key indicators for the topic area and, for Using and applying mathematics, resources and a lesson plan...

These assessment materials from the National Strategies are based on the Assessing Pupils' Performance (APP) assessment criteria and organised in National Curriculum levels. There is a set of materials for each of levels four to eight. The focused assessment materials include for each assessment criterion: *...

Part of the Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) collection, these resources present the criteria for assessing progress in students’ understanding of science at Key Stage Three.

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These guidelines/criteria are to help teachers assess progress in students’ work across five strands of...

APP Standards Files exemplify student work at different levels. Each Standards File includes:

*examples of evidence generated from students’ work in science, which have been assessed to exemplify the APP approach and show national standards

*commentary on the evidence for each AF, which leads to a...

Guidance for teachers on the thinking behind the use of Assessing Pupils Progress (APP) in secondary science at Key Stage Three. This handbook stresses the 'periodic' nature of the assessment possible using APP, as opposed to day-to-day and transitional assessments.

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This booklet...

Published by the Teacher Training Agency, these assessment materials provide an opportunity for schools and individual teachers to identify areas of subject knowledge which need further training and development. Developed by teams including teachers, inspection and advisory staff and higher education tutors, they...

In this Nuffield Council on Bioethics resource, students develop a campaign or presentation to combat misinformation. Students decide how to communicate with a chosen target group, produce an action plan and use evidence to back up their arguments. They then evaluate their campaign. The resource includes a lesson...

The Bowland Maths assessment guide details the role of the assessment tasks in the classroom in helping students become aware of the key processes in mathematics and their importance in problem solving, helping students to take greater responsibility for their own learning and encouraging students to assess and...

National Strategies teacher self-study units were devised to help science teachers develop an understanding of the key elements of Assessment for Learning and how it might affect their practice.

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This resource provides Key Stage Three National Strategy training materials to run a day session with science teachers to help them develop an understanding of the key elements of Assessment for Learning and how it might affect their practice.

As part of the National Strategies approach to Assessment for Learning (AfL) these units were developed to support the whole school approach implementation in mathematics departments. Each unit was intended to be used as a departmental development tool, starting with a self review section, a number of classroom...

Assessment of Practical Work for the GCSE was written in the early days of the GCSE qualification as a guide to teachers at a time when they were becoming responsible for more of the summative assessment of student performance. The book was part of a series about...

This Core Maths resource assesses students’ understanding of statistical ideas including data classification, sampling techniques and the calculation and interpretation of the mean and inter-quartile range. The given data allows...