The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) guidelines 2001 state that there is a need to recognise different perspectives on progression for pupils whose special needs mean that they will progress very slowly throughout their whole school career and may still be working towards level one even during their Secondary or Post 16 years.
The guidelines [...]
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Perspectives on progress
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Making Sense of P scales – A Framework
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The process of making assessments and talking to each other about levels, particularly around P levels 1 to 3 is made much easier if we think back to the wordings in the descriptions from which the P scales were developed.
The table reproduced below from page 27 of the “General guidelines” booklet of the Qualifications and [...]
Making Best Fit Judgements
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For some learners, it may be appropriate to ignore elements of a descriptor to acknowledge the impact of particular impairments. When making best-fit judgements, staff will need to take account of:
Pupils’ ages and prior attainments.
The levels of support, modelling or prompting pupils receive.
The effects of the barriers to learning experienced by pupils.
The examples of activities [...]
Flexibility in using the P scales
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Best-fit judgements are based on:
The teacher’s knowledge of the learner.
An awareness of the contexts in which learning takes place’
Consideration of a variety of different forms of evidence gathered over time.
Staff should not make judgements about levels on the basis of a single piece of work or any single item of evidence. However, pupils do not [...]
Assessing the overall performance of a pupil
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Staff should use their professional judgement to decide which P level descriptor offers the best fit for a pupil’s performance according to the evidence gathered.
Staff will need to work together to review their perspectives and decide whether a pupil’s performance, taken as a whole over a year or key stage, has been ‘more P5 than [...]
