Exploring teachers’ and pupils’ views about acknowledging learner assessment evidence in the Broad General Education of Curriculum for Excellence for use in qualifications in the Senior Phase (2015)
Published: 20 February 2021
UGEAN members Kay Livingston, Louise Hayward, Carolyn Hutchinson and Ernie Spencer carried out this project.
UGEAN members Kay Livingston, Louise Hayward, Carolyn Hutchinson and Ernie Spencer carried out this project.
The project was commissioned by the Scottish Qualifications Authority. Key aims were to interview staff and pupils in five case study schools to:
- gather views about the possibility of secondary schools gathering assessment evidence about learning in the Broad General Education phase of Curriculum for Excellence which could be used as part of the evidence for awarding SQA qualifications in the Senior Phase, thus spreading the assessment burden for qualifications more widely across pupils’ secondary school experience;
- obtain evidence about the extent to which the schools were actually doing this in practice.
In practice the project found very little evidence that the schools were gathering assessment evidence usable in this way. However, the project provided (for the first time) empirical evidence of actual assessment practice and associated curricular decisions across the typical range of subjects in secondary education.
The Research Report was delivered to the Scottish Qualifications Authority.
First published: 20 February 2021