Standard 6

These cover:

• know and understand how to assess the relevant subject and curriculum areas, including statutory assessment requirements
• ​make use of formative and summative assessment to secure pupils' progress
• use relevant data to monitor progress, set targets, and plan subsequent lessons
• give pupils regular feedback, both orally and through accurate marking, and encourage pupils to respond to the feedback

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A guide to Assessment for learning is a great starting point for resources supporting this Standard. For more useful resources on this Standard, take a look at our hand-selected resources below.

• A GUIDE TO AFL

  Work through these practical suggestions to develop your repertoire.

• CHEMICAL MISCONCEPTIONS

  A full set of activities designed to assess students' ideas.

• CHILDREN’S IDEAS IN SCIENCE

  How to use a constructivist approach to teach selected topics, with plenty of resources.

• COMMON WEAKNESSES IN GCSE SCIENCE

  Using examiners reports to inform your planning.

• EFFECTIVE MARKING HANDBOOK

  By an experienced Science Advanced Skills Teacher

• FEEDBACK COMPENDIUM

  Setting meaningful targets for students? Here’s 200 high quality, ready to use suggestions.

• GETTING TO GRIPS WITH ASSESSMENT

  This leaflet is full of ideas for developing good assessment practice.

• GROUP TALK AND ACTIVE QUESTIONING

  How to develop group work to promote discussion.

• LEARNING INTENTIONS AND SUCCESS CRITERIA

  John Hattie explains why we share them with students.

• MAGNETIC FIELDS AND THE ELECTRIC MOTOR EFFECT

  An exemplar lesson with a focus on AfL.

   

• MAKE YOUR OWN TOOLBOX

  Lots of practical ideas, from plenaries to whole-class feedback, from cards to dice.

• Making best use of exam questions

  This is a useful blog explaining how to create a diagnostic question from an examiners report.

• PEER AND SELF-ASSESSMENT

  A step-by-step guide explaining how to embed it in your practice.

• PREDICT-OBSERVE-EXPLAIN

  A good example of this technique for exposing students’ preconceptions.

• PROJECT 2061: SCIENCE ASSESSMENT

  Explore misconceptions, with over 600 diagnostic questions you can drop into your lessons.

• PROMOTING DISCUSSION TO PROBE UNDERSTANDING

  A useful set of professional development videos.

• QUESTIONING BOOKMARK

  A useful tool for planning effective questions – keep it on your desk!

• Teach Like a champion

  49 ideas to add to your toolbox of teaching techniques.

• TEMI SCIENCE MYSTERIES

  A great way to get students talking about their ideas in science.

• Understanding misconceptions

  Lots of material here about misconceptions.

• University of York Science Education Group

  A bank of ready to use, evidence-based diagnostic questions.

• Using P-O-E sequences

  13 formative assessment activities on forces and motion, with useful notes on students misconceptions.

• WHEN ASSESSMENT IS WORKING

  Use this card sort to reflect on what good AfL looks like.