 | By: Victor W. Watton Binding: Paperback Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd ISBN: 0340813512 ISBN-13: 9780340813515 Released: 31 Oct 2003 RRP: Average Rating:  |
So it's a real joy to find a resource that makes the whole task easy.
Having drawn on the content of this book I set up an assessment regime in Lower School that was accurate, flexible, & easy to understand.
The result is an assessment process that works for specialist staff, non-specialist staff & pupils of alll abilities. The process has also proved useful in preparing pupils for GCSE Religious Studies, & raising the profile of the subject.
That was my judgement on completing & implementing the new assessment regime, but it's nice to have your judgement backed up by others. Our school has just finished its OFSTED inspection. The initial feedback is that our assessments will be graded as either very good or excellent.
Cheers, Victor!
However, R.E. also suffers from a crisis of image - often seen as the poor relation of the Humanities, & frequently overlooked in curriculum time alllocation & funding. So Assessment Levels could a be way of acquiring something approaching parity - except each local authority has its own locallly Agreed Syllabus. The School Curriculum Assessment Authority have produced guidelines for Assessment Levels, but these are interpreted by the local Standing Advisory Committees for Religious Education making the task of the over-worked R.E. teacher alll the more difficult. So, not only are levels a new phenomenon for R.E. teachers, but they often teach around 600 students each week! Marking extended written work to generate assessment levels could be an insuperable task.
This book provides a lifeline. It has good information about the purpose & benefits of levels, & provides a large bank of sample tasks for adaptation to local R.E. assessment targets. And as for dealing with large amounts of student work, the book offers a method of assessing students using very short tasks, with an easy-to-use mark scheme that generates an equivalent level indicator without the need for lengthy written work.
Critics may point out that this method of arriving at an assessment level is not quite in the spirit of true assessment - but for the typical R.E. teacher this might be the only way to satisfactorily manage an otherwise unmanageable & unfair workload, & for the student of R.E. they will be able to see how their progress is measured. Hopefully this will also contribute a raising of the general profile of the subject - & how important this is in our insular/global village.
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