This resource from Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) contains the Statutory Assessment Tests for the year 2008, and their associated mark schemes, which are taken during May in the final year of Key Stage Three. The papers are tiered to facilitate an optimum...

This resource from the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) contains the Statutory Assessment Tests for Key Stage Two for the year 2008, and their associated mark schemes.

There are three papers: the ...

This resource from the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) contains the Statutory Assessment Tests (SATs) for the year 2009, and their associated mark schemes. This was the last statutory test for this Key Stage before they were abolished. The papers are...

This resource from the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) contains the national assessment tests for Key Stage Two for the year 2009, and their associated mark schemes.

There are three papers: the ...

These National Curriculum level eight questions from the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) were devised as optional assessment materials, they present a question in the familiar Key Stage Three style, but come complete with a commentary on the question, some supplementary questions and a comprehensive...

The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) developed the Year Seven Progress Tests as a measure of progress over the year from Key Stage 2, at one point all students that did not attain a level four in the Key Stage Two tests could take these tests, which covered...

The Key Skills qualifications from QCA are designed to enable learners to progress at their own pace. They build on the adult numeracy standards, which provide further detail of the skills needed to achieve the application of number key skill at levels one and two. Each level of the key skills above level one...

In this resource students estimate lengths and measure objects using both centimetres and millimetres.

The resource is part of the Nuffield Maths Level 1 Foundation resource collection.

This task assesses how well students understand calculating conditional probability. Some of the tasks require either systematic listing or use of  tree diagrams.

The task features a ‘memory game’. In the game there are four cards, two have a picture of an apple on them, and two have a picture of bananas. In...

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Describe how the seasons change through a year.
• Describe the movement of the Earth through a year.
• Describe evidence that shows the Earth moves in a circular orbit...

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Describe the properties of the Moon.
• Identify the shapes that the Moon can appear to be. 
• Describe how the shape of the Moon appears to change over time.   
• ...

This series of five one-hour lessons covers computer networks at secondary-school level. The objectives of the lessons are:

• Describe what a network is, the difference between a LAN and a WAN and identify three network topologies.
• Describe pieces of hardware that are needed in a network.
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The Nuffield Chemistry team worked with the then London Board to develop new styles of assessment to support new approaches to teaching and learning in science first at O-level and then at A-level. Many of the approaches adopted in the 1960s have stood the test of time...

One of the first books to be produced by the Nuffield Science Teaching Project in the 1960s, this introduction outlines the Nuffield Chemistry scheme and how its new approach to teaching and assessment aimed to modernise the teaching of the subject for students aged 11-...

In Nuffield Physics constructive problems or questions that ask for active thinking largely took the place of pupils' reading in texts or background books. The first chapter in this book about tests and examinations provided guidance on the nature and purposes of the questions in the range of Question Books. The...