Assessment

This section covers three areas of assessment:

• New ideas in assessment, where you will find information about assessment across subject boundaries and beyond the classroom, and guidance on assessing the skills, concepts and processes that are made explicit in the new secondary curriculum

• Assessment and the curriculum, where you will find guidance on ongoing assessment, on the principles for national curriculum assessment and information about developing work on subject assessment, including exemplification of standards

• Assessment FAQs, where you will find answers to frequently asked questions about QCA’s vision for assessment, new materials to support teacher assessment, the Making Good Progress pilot, and about the amended level descriptions and when they take effect

• National Curriculum in Action,  where you will find examples of pupils' work exemplifying standards relating to the key stage 3 programmes of study and attainment targets.