In our year group we were talking about how we could best assess children's maths progress and attainment throughout year. We know what many children are good at, can give next steps and are good at this kind of assessment. This is the bread and butter of teaching.
It is the big picture/national curriculum level description which is hard to judge for me and many other teachers.
Different strands of maths have different weightings or importance in the maths levels, surely? How can we judge children's levels if we are unclear about how much importance should be given to each strand?
The APP suggests a solution, but seems to be unwieldy and a huge marking burden. It is suggested to be used on a sample basis, but how does that inform your judgement of the cohort as a whole?
Here are some things I stumbled on:
curriculum map for Y3 from South Gloucester
simple selection of level descriptors for maths from learninglive
various uninvestigated maths assessment links from the shambles site
I feel I have been trying to figure this one out for many years.
At my last school I tried using key objective lists which were organised by year group...this could then be used to infer a level.
Does anyone have any answers?
Are there any online maths assessments out there? Are there any which are free? How do these weight the strands of maths?
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