Lower 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.
On the Self assessment sheet, the bold statements are those which should apply to most pupils. On separate sheets, you will find the LKS3 Teacher Record sheet and the pupil Self assessment sheet. 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
Use and explain the repeat and repeat until instruction
Create simple routes for partners to code a journey through
Change a simple program that uses repeated statements to use a repeat loop
Explain the difference between the repeat until and repeat loops and say when you would use each
Use and explain simple selection — if... do... code in a loop
Most
Create simple routes for partners to code a journey through
Use multiple if...do statements inside a loop
Understand the use of simple variables such as the colour of the traffic lights being red or green
Apply their coding skills to challenge a partner using repeat loops and if statement
Use an if...else if... else statement
Some
Explain why the ordering of different if...do statements is important and how it affects the running of the code
Extend a solution into a general solution
Explain why one program is more / less efficient than another.
Explain why a general solution might not always work with a complex layout
Explain the difference between multiple if..do statements and an if...else if... else statement
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