Assessment, Physical Computing and Making the Most of the Isaac Platform (GCSE & KS3 Strand 1) - face to face (Invite only) CH310 / F02

GCSE Strand 1 forms part of The Big Secondary CPD & Networking Event

Assessment - formative and summative strategies: Effective teaching is underpinned by the accurate use of assessment, enabling teachers to check knowledge and understanding of children. The use of accurate assessment allows teaching to be adapted and personalised, improving the learning journey for students.  This CPD aims to improve teachers’ knowledge of their students through a range of formative and summative assessment strategies whilst considering the importance of accurate assessment. During this short course, you’ll explore formative assessment strategies and their key characteristics, such as using general questioning to gauge student understanding and hinge questioning. You’ll explore how to effectively make use of summative assessments including baseline assessments and diagnostic questions.

Tools for diagnostic assessment in GCSE: Assessment of subject knowledge is important to inform teaching. This short session introduces the free, quality-assured test banks provided by the National Centre for Computing Education, designed to reduce teacher workload. Two assessment packages will be presented:

• Diagnose gaps in KS3 computing curriculum knowledge to ensure students have firm foundations at transition, or upon the return to classroom teaching;
• Assess the breadth of the GCSE Computer Science curriculum, providing an additional source of data to support centre-assessment of summer exams.

You’ll learn how to easily adapt tests to fit your curriculum expectations, and how to assign tests to classes of students. Each test produces a rich set of assessment data that can be used to adapt teaching and target interventions.

Making the most of the Isaac CS Platform: Isaac Computer Science is an exciting, free learning platform, aimed at supporting students with the subject knowledge required for GCSE and A Level. During this short course, you’ll learn about the features available on the Isaac Computer Science platform, including how to:

• create a group (if you have your students' email addresses to hand, you can set them up as a group during the session)
• set assignments (choose from our bank of pre-made question 'gameboards')
• view your students' progress in their assignments
• use auto-marking to inform your teaching
• create your own custom ‘gameboard’

This session will be led by an experienced Professional Development Leader, and will include a demonstration of the main features, as well as the opportunity to try them out.

We can support you in enhancing the computing curriculum within schools