Independent Review of Key Stage 2 Testing, Assessment and Accountability

Final Report

Author:

Lord Bew

Publisher:

TSO (The Stationery Office)

Price: £21.25

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'Independent Review of Key Stage 2 Testing, Assessment and Accountability' is the final report of the review led by Lord Bew into Key Stage 2 testing that finds there must be external school-level accountability in the system but that more trust should be placed in teachers, with a greater weight given to their assessment of pupils.

A wider range of data - including new progress and attainment measures, and rolling averages - should be taken into account to give a less arbitrary and fairer picture of a school's performance.

Recommendations include:

• The current writing test should be replaced by teacher assessment of writing composition.

• Maths should continue to be externally tested.

• Reading tests should continue but should be refined over time.

• Science should continue to be teacher assessed with a sample test to monitor national standards.

• Speaking and listening should continue to be teacher assessed.

• Three-year rolling averages should be introduced to give a rounded picture of a school's performance.

• There should be a greater emphasis on the progress of pupils.

• New progress and attainment measures should be introduced for pupils who have completed all of Years 5 and 6 in a school.

• Teacher assessment judgements should continue in English, maths and science, and should be submitted before test results are announced.

• There should be more detailed reporting to secondary schools so Year 7 teachers know right from the outset a pupil's attainment and the areas where extra work is needed.

• Pupils who are ill on the day of a test should have a week to sit it, rather than two days.

Extent	79 pages	ISBN	9780108510854
Size	A4	Price	£21.25
Format	Paperback	Published	14 Jul 2011
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