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Secondary Core - Assessing ICT capability

Module 4 Contents

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    Activity
    To understand the purposes and approaches to the assessment of ICT capability
     
    OBJECTIVES
    1. To understand the role of the teacher in assessing ICT capability
    2. To identify opportunities for diagnostic and formative as well as summative assessment
    3. To develop a scheme for assessing, tracking and monitoring the development of ICT capability taking account of skills gained, contexts and purposes
    4. To know about public schemes of summative assessment

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    QUESTIONS
    • What activity allows pupils to demonstrate ICT capability?
    • Consider a curriculum activity, explore the opportunities pupils might be given to demonstrate their capability in one or more strands of ICT capability including skills, knowledge and understandings gained.
    • It must allow for success, differentiation and progression.
    • Compare the Programmes of Study for ICT with those for another subject, with your own experience. Explore how ICT tasks might be set to allow pupils to demonstrate their own individual abilities.
    • Scrutinise National Curriculum requirements and your own.
    • Compare the Programmes of Study for ICT with those for another subject, with your own experience. Explore how ICT tasks might be set to allow pupils to demonstrate their own individual abilities.
    • Design a format for recording and monitoring progress.
    • This should allow pupils' development in ICT to be tracked, monitored and success recorded and evidenced for formative and diagnostic reasons as well as summative reporting at the ends of key stages.

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    SELF EVALUATION
    • What do you see as the roles of the teacher in assessing ICT capability?
      • You might wish to explore the roles of the teacher in terms of diagnostic and formative assessment as well as contributing to the pupils’ summative assessments of ICT capability.
      • What were the strong points of the format you designed for recording and monitoring progress? What were the weaknesses?
      • Considerations such as clarity of intentions, ease of use and explanation, relationship with assessment policies and existing practice, and overall effectiveness are important here.
      • What kind of activities do you think lend themselves best to assessing ICT capability?
      • You may wish to focus on a particular subject area or age group or take a more general view .

     

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