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This is the story of one school's successful journey to a ‘life after levels’. Together, the Headteacher and staff at one successful school took on the challenge: Where do we begin? What is the best assessment system for our school and our children? How do we make the most of assessment opportunities in the classroom? How do we create an assessment policy from scratch and implement it in the school? How do we evaluate it, re-shape it and talk about it to parents, the wider school community and our colleagues in primary education?
The Impact and Opportunity of Life After Levels for School Practitioners
The Impact and Opportunity of Life After Levels for School Practitioners
This chapter will:
- reflect how the use of the Levels system helped us to assess children's learning;
- summarise what the removal of Levels has revealed about how we assess children's learning;
- explore what summative assessment can look like without Levels;
- consider what formative assessment can look like without Levels;
- define what breadth and mastery means with assessment without Levels.
What Did Levels Ever do for Us?
When members of the teaching profession are asked the inevitable question, ‘Why do we assess?’ they are quick to reply with a number of responses. Up there with the most common replies is that it enables us to see what children know' and ...
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