General
Assessing Pupil Progress (APP)
‘Assessing Pupil Progress’ supports tracking and making
judgements about each pupil’s progress in reading, writing and
mathematics. An A3 tracking sheet supports tracking in each of
these areas against the Assessing Pupil Progress assessment
criteria. These assessment criteria are also used to mark the
single-level tests, creating a closer link between assessment and
testing. Tracking using APP focuses all involved in the learning
process on what is needed to achieve the next level. APP will be
rolled out nationally to all schools in January 2008.
What are the features of APP?
Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) is a systematic approach to
periodic assessment that provides:
- diagnostic information about individual pupils’ progress;
- management information about the attainment and progress of
groups.
The key features of the APP approach include:
- providing an overview of performance based on a wide range of
evidence;
- giving a detailed profile of what a pupil can do in relation to
the assessment focuses;
- identifying areas to be developed to inform planning;
- providing a national curriculum subject level when needed, from
an informed, holistic judgement rather than an arithmetical
accumulation of marks in tests or aggregation of tiny ‘steps’.
Primary
Framework for literacy and mathematics: Assessment
Secondary
Renewed Framework