Assessment and Computing - A Practical Guide to Teaching Computing and ICT in the Secondary School - page 71

These indicate key elements of assessment practice that need to be focused on in
Computing. The following activity is intended to scaffold a critical review of
existing departmental practice, and hence identify opportunities for development.

Task 4.2

Checklist
The comments from HMI as noted above suggest a checklist that could be used
by any department to identify opportunities to extend and improve on practice.
Based on a department with which you are familiar complete Table 4.1 :

Table 4.1 Checklist for department assessment

Aspect Yet to be

engaged with

Emergent Embedded in

department
practice

Pupils are aware
of their own
targets and
learning needs

Computing use in
a cross-curricular
context is
monitored and
pupil achievement
recorded

Pupils meet and
use a wide range
of Computing
tools and topics

Baseline capability
is determined,
recorded and used
to plan learning

Pupils with higher
Computing
abilities have these
extended further

Marking is regular
and formative

Peer-review is
used

Self-review is used

Moderation of
standards is
undertaken
between teachers
at KS3