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- Title: After Sats--What Next? (Secondary)
- Author : Simon Gibbons
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 50 KB
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If you are anything like me, the long overdue death in England of national testing (aka SATs) at Key Stage 3 would have heralded a period of intense celebration, only marginally tempered by the somewhat curious decision of certain schools to persist with what had become--and for many had always been--a thoroughly flawed system. Such was the intensity of my celebration, in fact, that I think I must have still been suffering the inevitable hangover when the report emerged from the Expert Group on Assessment in May of 2009, making recommendations concerning assessment and accountability in the post-SATs era. Consequently, at the time, I didn't really take note of the detail of the report's recommendations. Having recently attended a QCDA National Workshop, however, I have been encouraged, if not inspired, to think about one particular element of the brave new world of key stage 3 assessment that looms before us. You'll probably know that the Expert Group made nine recommendations in its report. Some of these, in broad terms at least, seem very welcome. Strengthening teacher assessment, cross phase moderation and improving transition are headline aims that most English teachers would support, even if wishing to query the current, inadequately evaluated, model of APP that might prop up policy in such areas. The QCDA workshop, however, focused on the report's ninth recommendation, specifically that: