ACME's Views on an Alternative Regime for Key Stage 2 Assessment in Mathematics
25 November 2009
In October 2008, the Secretary of State asked an Expert Group on
Assessment to look at the future of testing at the end of Key Stage
2 (KS2) in English, Science and Mathematics. ACME submitted its
views to the Expert Group. Subsequently, the Expert Group
recommended that KS2 tests in English and Mathematics should be
retained, but should be scrapped for Science. These recommendations
were accepted by the Secretary of State.
ACME expressed its disagreement with the recommendations and a
meeting with the Secretary of State was scheduled. As part of
the process of preparing for this meeting, ACME organised a seminar
at which a frank and full discussion of the challenges facing an
assessment regime for the end of KS2 were discussed. The seminar
also looked at some alternative assessment regimes to that proposed
by the Expert Group on Assessment. The key outcomes of this
discussion are highlighted in the paper below.
ACME's views on an alternative regime for Key Stage 2
Assessment in Mathematics