This week I have finalised our new Assessment, Marking and Feedback policy and submitted the draft to the Governors for review. This policy was a complete rewrite, incorporating and committing to our latest thinking on assessment without levels and closing the gap marking and feedback. I also spent some time preparing for our assessment without levels network meeting by working on the English assessment framework, which we’re basing on the groundwork from Belmont school and David Didau shared by Dan Brinton. One of the tasks I was trying to do was to match the assessment criteria we had created as closely as I could to the grade descriptors for GCSEs graded 1-9 published in November by the DfE. Except there was a problem. The grade descriptors are completely useless.
It starts with this gem in the “Detail” :
We have developed ‘grade descriptors’ for the new…
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