Assessing Pupils' Progress: Guidelines and Criteria

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.

[b]Structure[/b]
These guidelines/criteria are to help teachers assess progress in students’ work across five strands of assessment called Assessment Focuses (AFs), as follows:
*AF1: Thinking Scientifically
*AF2: Understanding the applications and implication of science
*AF3: Communicating and collaborating in science
*AF4: Using Investigative approaches
*AF5: Working critically with evidence

[b]Contents[/b]
The presentation of the AFs is both as a complete table on a poster, but also as a version produced with two levels per page (for example, L3/4, L4/5 and so on) in a booklet, so that a teacher makes an initial approximation and then only needs to consider two levels at a time.
*Assessment criteria: science (poster)
*Assessment guidelines (booklet)