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Step 2
These procedures will help you to identify what is happening in your institution at the moment. It will help to make explicit to everyone what is happening now.
The Calendar
Agree to produce an assessment calendar. This could be collated something like the one below:
| Subject Area | All | |||
| Year Group | First Year of the course | |||
| Month and date | Type of assessment | Organised by | Outcomes recorded by | Information sent to and used by |
| Sept | ||||
| Week 1 | ||||
| Week 2 | Summative | NFER/CAT | Assessment Co-ordinator | HOD/HOY & subject staff for adding to baseline data & used for target setting |
| Week 3 | ||||
| Week 4 | ||||
| Oct | ||||
| Week 1 | Formative | Internal | Subject staff, learners and peers | Form Tutor |
| Week 2 | Summative | Internal | HOD | Assessment co-ordinator |
| Week 3 | ||||
| Week 4 | ||||
| Nov | ||||
| Week 1 | Diagnostic | SENCo | SENCo | HoY & Subject staff |
| Week 2 | ||||
| Week 3 | Formative | Internal | Subject staff, learners and peers | Form tutor |
| Week 4 | ||||
| Dec | ||||
| Week 1 | Summative | Internal | HOD & Subject staff | Assessment co-ordinator, SMT, Parents |
| Week 2 | ||||
| Week 3 | ||||
| Week 4 |
The audit
For each type of assessment, the following audit is also useful:
| Type | Preparation | Conducting | Feeding Back |
| Sept. week 2 summative | External agency | Formally in exam conditions | To HOD for baseline data. To HOY for baseline data To subject teachers for baseline data and target setting |
| Oct. week 1 Formative | Subject staff | Informally in classroom | To subject staff, Learning Assistants, Pupils, Peers |
| Oct week 2 summative | Internal | Informally in classroom | To HOD, Assessment co-ordinator, Pupils |
| Nov week 1 diagnostic | External agent | In lesson time one-to-one | To subject staff, learning assistants, pupils & parents |