Tideway School, Southdown Road, Newhaven, East Sussex, BN9 9JL

Case Studies

Science Assessment

Online assessment using the Learning Platform has been piloted with a KS4 Triple Science Group. There are 25 students in the group, with a high percentage of gifted and talented.

The assessment tool allows for a range of styles and formats of questions, from multiple choice through to text input.

Multiple choice questions were used for this first assessment as this is the format that students will encounter in their final exam.

The assessment data produced by the system allows staff to:

- track who has completed what questions

- examine individual student performance

- identify patterns of answers and adapt

  teaching

- identify underperformance in relation to

  national targets and target support

The system is self-marking and gives stduents immediate feedback. Feedback can also be tailored and adapted by staff.

The assessment has been set up for Higher and Foundation tiers.

Students are allocated individually to test areas.

note: the mistake in the table on question 1 has been replicated from the orignal test paper !

'the organisational and pedagogical concepts underpinning most modern LMS systems fit badly with educational culture'. Studymentor