The Assessment Pack:
 
Provides baseline assessment
§      Find out what your pupils already know with ‘Quick Quizzes’.
§      Use this to choose the most appropriate teaching approach for each pupil.
 
Includes formative assessment opportunities throughout
§      ‘Quick Checks’ allow pupils to judge for themselves how well they are learning, and identify ways in which to improve.
§      ‘Target Sheets’ encourage pupils to measure their own progress.
 
Differentiated summative assessment
§      With end-of-unit tests for every unit, containing SAT-style and How Science Works questions.
§      Plus an open-ended summative task for every unit with levelled outcomes.
§      End-of-year tests provided at different levels (L3-5 and L5-7 level descriptors, marking guidance and sample answers are provided).
 
AT1 assessment
§      Practical activities designed to develop strands of AT1.
§      Suggests a full AT1 investigation for each unit.
§      Level descriptions are adapted for each investigation, which can be used as a mark scheme.