Intermediate KS3 Assessment
Assessment techniques and key questions
Assessment and recording progress
Use the Rapid Router Scoreboard to keep track of the student’s progress through the levels. This should supplement your observations and assessments through discussion with the students.
At the end of the activity set, you can use the following guide to assess and record the student’s learning using the All/Most/Some model.
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].
Assessment techniques and key questions
Throughout the teaching plans, there are key questions to ask, which will help you assess the student’s understanding. Asking effective questions and giving the students 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 students to respond to a question rather than the ‘hands-up’ approach to ensure that everyone is engaged, not just the same few students quick to raise hands.
Displaying two solutions (1 and 2) on the Interactive Whiteboard, get all the students to vote for 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
Explain what a variable in a computer program means
Write code that does something different depending on the value of a variable such as the colour of a traffic light
Most
Define a procedure in Blockly
Call a procedure in Blockly
Make use of the repeat...while block
Some
Use a repeat loop in a procedure in Blockly
Create a complex level that makes use of repeat loops and if..do blocks
Explain the difference between the repeat n times, repeat until and repeat while blocks
Optimise their code to make it shorter and more efficient
Decompose a problem and identify which parts could go in a procedure
Explain the difference between a procedure and a loop
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