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Ange's Scribbles, Initial assessment; the student experience

10th May 2009

The majority of available literature on the topic of initial assessment consists of policy documents aimed at providers of ESOL and Basic Skills education. There have been a number of government initiatives in the UK aimed at improving standards in literacy and numeracy.

The QCA says schools with half decent admissions procedures are the ones which will adequately identify support needs; http://www.qca.org.uk/qca_7143.aspx

Ofsted www.excellencegateway.org.uk recommends “STL” as example of good practice… so off I went to Google STL; http://www.stltraining.co.uk/ and then emailed someone from STL to enquire about their assessment policy. One month on and I've heard nothing.

Anyway, the general guidance from Ofsted is that good practice in initial assessment must have;

Team approach to support
Detailed initial assessment
ILPs

What do their inspectors look out for?...

http://excellence.qia.org.uk/page.aspx?o=11F8361F-F327-4D61-BF27-43190802FECD

So now we know.

Angela Karadog

Hi, I’m Angela and this is my personal blog for documenting and reflecting on things I’m working on and learning about. I am a qualified teacher, experienced in Secondary and FE settings, and since 2009 I have been working as a project manager, researcher and trainer for Wales (and Spain) based education research company, Pontydysgu Ltd. My specialist areas include technology enhanced learning, teacher training in ICT and, Digital media and information literacies. I work on a variety of EC-funded multi-national education projects.