Controlled Assessment This presentation gives general guidance on controlled assessment for GCSE...

Controlled Assessment

This presentation gives general guidance on controlled assessment for GCSE Computer Science.And linking this to GCSE ICT.

A Reminder -

This is from our ‘Getting Ready to Teach’ presentation: Practical programming – Assesses Topics 1 & 2– Single context, 3 tasks– 15 hours, medium control– A new task published in January each year– Choice of three programming languages–No internet access–Digital submission

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Remember - Level of Control (see p20 Spec)

• Task setting: High Level– Pearson sets the task

• Task Taking: Medium Control– Students work alone–Must be supervised– Teachers can help students to understand rubrics,

assessment criteria and controlled conditions– Students’ work must be saved and stored

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Getting ready for the Controlled Assessment - Summary

• Know the Specification

• Use the Sample Assessment Material

• Use the Exemplar, and the Mark Scheme

• Take a holistic approach

• Use Moderators’ reports

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Know the Specification

The CA covers Topics 1 and 2

• But remember the exam paper will cover ALL Topics–Over the lifetime of the spec

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Use the Sample AssessmentMaterial

• Prepare them– So there are no surprises

• Can they do everything asked for in the requirements?– i.e. tick them off?

• Can they follow the guidance on how to save/present their work?

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Use the Exemplar Mark Scheme

• There is no reason why you can’t go through this with your students

• Do a mapping exercise– Task– Specification–Mark scheme

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Holistic approach to marking

• Where does a task ‘fit’ in the mark scheme?–Which level?

• Make sure you can justify your marks – use the marking criteria

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Use Moderators’ reports

• These will be available for June 2015 series– Use the support on the website

• But you can have a look at other exams to see if there are any ‘patterns’ you can identify– Previous Moderators’ reports for ICT

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GCSE ICT

• Same as for Computer Science

• Resources to help you have been building up over the product cycle– Lesson resources– Exemplars– Past training content○ Feedback ○ Standardisation

–Moderators’ reports○ Your own centre reports

• And use the Controlled Assessment Teacher Support Book 2012

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