Assessment

Any teacher will be all too familiar with that horrible question, “will this be on the exam?”. Who can blame students for asking it when everything’s about getting the marks in the exam?   One of the key features of the new science GCSEs is the assessment, which is designed to… Read More

When speaking to colleagues about the challenges this year the conversation always seems to end up on GCSE Controlled Assessments. Teaching, managing and marking the Controlled Assessments appears to have been even more complex than people feared.  And everyone I know has all their fingers and toes crossed that the… Read More