Publisher's Synopsis
The Assessment Pack:
Provides baseline assessment
§ Find out what your pupils already know with 'Quick Quizzes'.
§ Use this to choose the most appropriate teaching approach for each pupil.
Includes formative assessment opportunities throughout
§ 'Quick Checks' allow pupils to judge for themselves how well they are learning, and identify ways in which to improve.
§ 'Target Sheets' encourage pupils to measure their own progress.
Differentiated summative assessment
§ With end-of-unit tests for every unit, containing SAT-style and How Science Works questions.
§ Plus an open-ended summative task for every unit with levelled outcomes.
§ End-of-year tests provided at different levels (L3-5 and L5-7 level descriptors, marking guidance and sample answers are provided).
AT1 assessment
§ Practical activities designed to develop strands of AT1.
§ Suggests a full AT1 investigation for each unit.
§ Level descriptions are adapted for each investigation, which can be used as a mark scheme.
