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CIEA host assessment seminar with NFER
The CIEA, in partnership with NFER hosted a timely seminar at the Royal Institute of Architects on June 2nd. The seminar concerned itself with methods for ensuring the reliability of teacher assessments in a rapidly changing context of national assessments.
The assessment system in England is going through a period of unprecedented change, with changes currently underway or being discussed at every stage of education. There does not appear to be a consistency across these changes, so coursework (one form of teacher assessment) is being replaced by controlled assessment at GCSE, whereas a key component of the new Diplomas will be assessed by teachers. At the lower levels, external tests were removed at key stage 1 in 2005, and key stage 3 tests were abolished from 2009. More recently there has been an announcement that key stage tests in science will be removed from key stage 2 from 2010.