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 need to repeat responses that are regarded by staff as secure (by performing a given skill five times over, for example).
A pupil does not necessarily have to demonstrate every element in a level descriptor or demonstrate an element a certain number of times in order to be awarded a given level. Pupils do not need to demonstrate mastery of a certain percentage of the elements in a level descriptor. There is no need to create further sublevels or subdivisions within each
P level.
“There is no need to create further sublevels or subdivisions within each
P level.”
How do you feel about the bsquared assessment scheme? IMO its not using the plevels in the way they were intended.
In response to the query about sub levels
B Squared and PIVATS both generate sub levels and some people like this because it may help them to describe some progress within levels. — the examples that have been put in by B Sq or PIVATS may be good — but they will not be the only examples that could be possible. — So what I feel is that whilst its fine to describe examples of progress within levels — we should avoid letting those examples harden into a hierarchy which excludes other examples of progress that we may need to recognise.