Self Evaluation
Marking For Improvement
Presented by:
Mrs G Duffy, VP & Mrs B Bridges, Curriculum
Leader
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Focus: Marking For Improvement
September `12
• Consultation with staff and agreed the focus: a
need to change the marking of pupils’ work
• Agreed the year group to carry out this change:
Year 8
• Agreed evidence to quality assure the process:
Book sampling, Trusted Colleague Observations,
Pupil/Parent Voice, Data (if relevant)
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Starting Process
• Collected samples of work from all Depts for the
year group targeted and the QA team analysed
the marking
• Feedback on marking in Mercy College was given
at a HOD meeting as well as information on
effective marking
• Established the way forward – marking for
improvement strategy
• Agreed date for sampling
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Next Step
• All HOD`s submitted a report to the QA team
which included their baseline in marking as
well as comments on their new way of
marking
• The QA team looked at these reports and
assessed 4 departments - gathering evidence
of Marking For Improvement (book sampling,
and trusted colleague observations)
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SELF-EVALUATION
School Target: Marking for Improvement
Department: ________________
Focus of this SelfEvaluation is to
bring about whole
school
improvement in
assessment for
learning
Date: ___________________
Areas for Improvement
(a)Share Success Criteria
(b)Use comments only in feedback to pupil:
Identify two strengths and one area for
improvement
(c)Discuss assessment decision with pupil
Evidence
Teacher’s Signature:_______________
QAT Member’s
Signature :____________________
Date: ________________
Date: ________________
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Department:
Technology & Design
Base line position
(please comment on
how work was
assessed in your
department)
Previously our department’s marking consisted of marking workbooks at
the end of a Unit of Work and marking the few home works, that are given
throughout the unit, as they are submitted. The marking consisted of a
mark against the assessment criteria, which is given to each student, for
each Unit of Work.
Review of Action
Plan
Sources of Evidence
To date…we have sampled 1 Yr 9 Homework and 1 Yr 10 homework from
each class (2 & 3 respectively). The home works are completed in class
workbooks for each Unit of Work.
Evidence: Work Books and Homework
Evaluative Comment
I am the only teacher teaching Year 9 & 10 classes. Marking for
improvement is now carried out in all of these classes. This was observed
by checking the marking in all work books for all Year 9 & 10 students. The
pupils are provided with excellent feedback on the homework and on the
Evaluation page at the end of each Unit.
All teachers in the Department now share the success criteria for all units
with all pupils and comment on 2 strengths and one area for improvement.
Next year all of the teachers within the department will be using the
strategy for marking for improvement & sharing success criteria with pupils.
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QAT Findings
• There was still inconsistency in the
marking of pupil work both within
departments and between departments
• Positive aspects included the number of
trusted colleague observations which
took place which contributed to the
start of the process of the sharing of
good practice.
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QAT Findings
Reasons for failure
• Tried to do too much in one year
• Staff got confused as to what the focus was on:
marking for improvement, trusted colleague
observations, effective questioning and PRSD got
involved as well
• Other factors: transition of pupils, workload,
staffing issues
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Sept 2013 – Started over again
• Introduced the idea of “Formal Homeworks” at
the first HOD meeting of the year
• Produced a template for all Departments to use
for the formal homeworks
• Showed them an example from Science of what it
should look like
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Great emphasis was placed on the following:
• Clear specific success criteria for pupils and where
possible pupils were involved in creating these
• The comments made on the pupils` work only
relating to the success criteria
• Teachers recording the mark for the homework in
their registers and sharing it with the pupils at
some point after they had read the comments
Timeline
Sept`13: Departmental meeting (1)
• Each member brought 3 samples of marking for discussion
• After meeting (1) – HOD wrote a brief description of what the
marking was like (baseline)
Oct `13: Formal homeworks were distributed
• Completed by pupils and marked by teachers according to the success
criteria
• Members of each department invited colleagues in when they were
returning the homework (Trusted colleague observations sheets were
completed)
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Nov / Dec `13: Departmental Meeting (2)
• Each member brings 3 samples of home works
• The HOD writes a brief description of the marking in the department
• HOD hands up a folder with TCO sheets, HOD comments and
evidence
Where are we now?
• The deadline for the folders to be handed
in to the QA team is 20th Dec
• The QA team will sample 3 departments
and gather evidence
• The QA team will write their report on
Marking for Improvement in Mercy College
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The results so far…
• A lot of professional discussions have taken place at all
levels about Marking For Improvement
• Feedback from pupils (carried out by SLT) indicates
that the feedback is meaningful
• Both teachers and pupils have made suggestions for
improvement
• Parents have made positive comments about the
marking
• We are confident that by the end of Jan`14 we will
have achieved consistency in Marking for
Improvement across all departments in Mercy College