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Summative Assessment Strategies - Secondary

This course explores what it means to be accountable for pupils’ attainment, progress and outcomes.

914 enrolled on this course

  • Duration

    2 weeks
  • Weekly study

    10 hours

Explore how to use summative assessment effectively

This course aims to enhance your understanding of being accountable for pupils’ attainment, progress and outcomes. It will help you to recognise the importance of interpreting data to identify whether individual pupils are coasting, achieving or struggling.

What topics will you cover?

  • What is summative assessment?
  • Is summative assessment effective in primary school?
  • Using summative assessment
  • Assessment curriculum 2000 (old way)
  • Assessment without levels 2014 (new way)
  • Assessment for transition
  • Developing a sense of responsibility as a teacher
  • Relevant Personal Training Plans (PTPs)
  • Common misconceptions relating to summative assessment
  • Getting pupils to consider that they may do better in one topic/subject compared to another
  • Interpreting and acting on feedback
  • Adapting your feedback per subject/topic and per pupil
  • Differences between coasting, achieving and struggling
  • The importance of knowing your students and the impact of misinterpreting their progress

Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Develop pupil understanding of their progress by effectively developing their understanding of feedback correlating to data
  • Interpret data to identify whether individual pupils are coasting, achieving or struggling and plan accordingly
  • Explain how to use and prepare an effective summative assessment
  • Explain what it means to be accountable for pupils’ attainment, progress and outcomes
  • Discuss what progress is and be able to recognise what this looks like in their setting enabling effective and accurate future planning

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for PGCE trainees.

Who developed the course?

Coventry University

Coventry secured 5 QS Stars for Teaching and Online Learning in the QS World University Ranking 2020 and has received No. 1 in the world for Massive Open Online Courses in MoocLab’s World University Ranking 2021.

  • Established

    1992
  • Location

    Coventry

Learning on FutureLearn

Your learning, your rules

  • Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
  • Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
  • Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores

Join a global classroom

  • Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
  • Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
  • Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others

Map your progress

  • As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
  • Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control

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