ABOUT THIS COURSE

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Develop a deeper understanding of the assessment demands in AQA GCSE Geography
• Discover what examiners are looking for in L3 answers using exemplars
• Improve your ability to assess and improve student responses for Paper 1, 2 and 3 questions
• Scrutinise and discuss exemplar student responses for a variety of question types
• Take part in assessment and marking exercises to improve student performance
• Take away strategies and approaches to maximise students’ marks in the exams
• Find out more about how to give the most effective feedback to students

PROGRAMME

The Fundamentals: AQA Assessment principals

• Develop a critical understanding of exam board assessment standards
• Developing a skills-based curriculum and an appreciation of the precise demands of the exam papers
• Assessment objectives and the implications for teaching and learning
• Understanding and applying mark schemes
• Understand that students require the mark scheme to be adapted, ensure that they understand the exam grade levels
• Understand how to use the exam report feedback

Effective Assessment of Short Responses (Point markers)

• Using annotations for effective student feedback
• Where are marks lost?: high, medium and low facility questions, missed questions, 2 markers, inaccurate graph completion
• How can your students avoid missing out on marks?
• How can figures be used effectively?
• Mark and review a range of responses on the hazards, urban, resources and unfamiliar fieldwork topics to gain the key skills to accurately assess 1 to 3 mark questions

Morning Break

Effective Assessment of Long Responses (Levels responses)

• Using annotations for effective student feedback
• How can figures be used effectively?
• Apply case studies and examples effectively
• Explore means of producing higher level responses to essay and long answer questions
• Approaches to ensuring students achieve the level of skills needed to select and apply appropriate knowledge
• Gain an understanding of the concept of a range of acceptable marks
• Mark and review a range of responses on the hazards, urban and the issue evaluation topics to gain the key skills to accurately assess 4 to 9 mark questions

Lunch

Raising Achievement through formative assessment and providing effective feedback

• The importance of Formative assessment
• Providing effective formative feedback to enhance student learning
• Ensure students engage effectively with feedback and can articulate what they have found out from it; what they will do to improve and the process of assessment and feedback
• Take part in a teacher-designed assessment activity to increase your confidence and help you focus on the key areas in which to enhance student performance

Afternoon Break

Raising Achievement through summative assessment and providing effective feedback

• The importance of summative assessment in enhancing student learning
• Ensuring the validity of summative assessment: standardising, moderating marking and assigning grade boundaries
• Take part in a teacher-designed assessment activity to increase your confidence and help you focus on the key areas in which to enhance student performance
• Feedback suggestions that challenge and move forward high grade students
• What next? Strategies that will enable students to improve