Curriculum for Excellence places assessment and achievement as important parts of learning and teaching.
Assessment is the monitoring and tracking of pupils’ learning progress and will be undertaken by teachers throughout the new curriculum.
This will include a wide range of activities to provide young people with the opportunity to achieve valuable skills for learning, life and work. It is very important to recognise these achievements and to make sure that young people are aware of the skills they gain.
Information is given here to help parents to understand assessment in the new curriculum and to help pupils prepare for assessment and examinations.
Source: The following information is taken from the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) website.
Assessment is the monitoring and tracking of pupils’ learning progress and it will be undertaken by teachers throughout the Curriculum 3–18.
The new qualifications will be assessed through Unit and Course assessment which is designed to allow more scope for teacher professionalism and learner choice.
More details about the new types of assessment available on SQA.
The SQA Curriculum for Excellence home page provides a drop down list to the latest information available for each subject.
Draft Documents
Draft documents about the new assessment is provided here and includes:
Documents which will be published soon include:
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draft Course Support Notes (January 2012)
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draft Unit Support Notes (January 2012)
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Exemplification (April 2013)
The final versions of all of our draft documents will be published in April 2012.
These will give more information and examples to help to teach and assess the new National 5 qualifications. Find out more about the qualifications development stages.
