Extensive opportunities for formative assessment are included in all of our lesson resources through whole-class checking for understanding strategies. These checks for understanding target key concepts and skills that are crucial for students to know, and provide teachers with information that they can use to inform instructional decisions.
Our Daily Review and Do Now materials also offer frequent opportunities to gain information about students’ knowledge, understanding and skills to provide effective responsive teaching, including determining the next steps in learning.
In addition, we offer a range of materials to support teachers to further assess student learning and achievement, and the progress students have made.
Many of our units contain end of unit assessments, which have been designed to assess student achievement against the curriculum content and standards. These assessments can form part of the evidence base for providing a judgement for student achievement and progress.
We have also developed termly assessments in some areas (for example, primary mathematics), which can further support teacher judgement. These assessments also provide an opportunity for students to demonstrate long term retention of knowledge and skills, as they often contain content from previous units and terms.
Some sample assessments (for example, in secondary maths), provide teachers with suggestions for how valid and effective assessments can be developed to support student learning. These annotated tasks make clear the decisions made by the creators of the tasks, and help to support teacher teams in developing similar tasks for their own contexts.