In-Service Teacher Training
Assessment in IGCSE Chemistry 0620
Session 3: Mark schemes and Examiners
Reports
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Welcome
• Introductions
• Background
• Aim of training
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Session 3 looks at:
• Using the mark scheme
• Using the Examiner Report
• Additional resources for IGCSE Chemistry
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Using mark schemes (1):
The importance of mark schemes
Mark schemes:
• Give the allocation of marks
• Indicate the range of acceptable answers
• Give examples of unacceptable answers
• Give an indication of what Examiners are
looking for in an answer
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Using mark schemes (2):
Use with the Examiner Report
The mark scheme and Examiner Report:
• Both give information about each part of
each question
• Should be used side by side to analyse
students’ answers to questions
• Provide information which can be passed on
to students
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Using mark schemes (3):
Analysis of candidate scripts
Take each question in turn and do the
following:
• Make yourself familiar with the mark scheme
• Mark the questions showing clearly where
you gave each mark
• Refer to the marking guidelines given in
Session 2
• When you have finished, compare your
marks with those of the Examiner.
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Using Examiner Reports (1):
The importance of the reports
• The range of candidate misconceptions is
addressed
• Areas of weakness of the candidates as a
whole are highlighted
• Reasons are suggested for common
incorrect answers
• The range of acceptable answers are
commented on
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Using Examiner Reports(2):
Analysis of contents
• Misreading of questions
• Incorrect reference or lack of reference to
the stem of a question
• Incorrect extraction of information from a
table
• Errors in writing equations
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Using Examiner Reports(2):
Analysis of contents
• Advice for future candidates
• Careless use of words (which may result in
candidates being penalised)
• Poor quality of diagrams
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Using Examiner Reports(3): Teaching
aims and the Examiner Report
• It is useful to analyse the Examiner
Reports over a number of years
• There are a number of misconceptions that
regularly reappear
• There are a number of specific areas which
students find conceptually difficult
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Additional resources (1):
Schemes of work and tests
• The scheme of work has 10 units which
may contain:
Questions
Online tests
Simulations and simulation notes
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Additional resources (2):
Online test materials
• Test material related to each section of the
scheme of work are available
• There are 20 interactive questions per
section
• Full explanations of why particular answers
are correct are available for each question
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Additional resources (3): Other
resources recommended by CIE
• Standards booklets
• Specimen papers
• IGCSE Chemistry Past Papers on CD
Toolkit
• IGCSE Chemistry endorsed textbooks
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Additional resources (4): Other
resources recommended by CIE
• Teaching and Assessing Skills in Practical
Science
• Planning for Practical Science in
Secondary Schools
• Resource lists
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