KS2 Assessment sheet
Assessment techniques and key questions
Assessment and recording progress
Use the Rapid Router Scoreboard to keep track of the childrens’ progress through the levels. This should supplement your observations and assessments through discussion with the children.
At the end of the activity set, you can use the following guide to assess and record the children’s learning using the All/Most/Some model.
On the Self-Assessment sheet, the bold statements are those which should apply to most pupils.
On separate sheets you will find the KS2 Teacher Record sheet, KS2-TRS, and the pupil Self-Assessment sheet, KS2-SA.
You can view and manage all of your students within each of your classes by accessing the classes section of the teaching portal [fig A.1].
See Shirley Clark’s work for more ideas: www.shirleyclarke-education.org/resources
Assessment techniques and key questions
Throughout the teaching plans, there are key questions to ask, which will help you assess the children’s understanding. Asking effective questions and giving the children opportunities to discuss with partners and then present what they have done to their peers is an essential part of the Assessment for Learning (AfL) cycle.
The tried and tested AfL techniques will work well here, for example:
Randomly choosing children to respond to a question rather than the ‘hands-up’ approach to ensure that everyone is engaged, not just the same few children quick to raise hands. Many teachers use variations of the idea of choosing a lolly stick randomly from a pot of lolly sticks each with a class member’s name on.
Displaying two solutions (1 and 2) on the Interactive Whiteboard, get all the children to write the number of the solution they think is correct on their whiteboard (e.g. for selecting which sequence of code will drive the van along a particular route).
All
Use a repeat block to repeat one or two instructions
Explain how their code works
Most
Create a simple programming challenge for a partner
Identify the shortest route to a destination and create the code for this
Code a solution to a complex route
Some
Explain how a repeat loop works
Predict what would happen if they changed the number of repeats
Create a program using more than one repeat loop
Demonstrate logical thinking to correct errors in their program
Create a program with nested repeat loops
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