Planning for Assessment
The assessment of pupils’ UICT skills within the scheme is based on teacher assessment. These skills should be developed each year as pupils progress through the primary school and you should base evidence of pupils’ UICT competence on work undertaken in UICT across the Areas of Learning.
Pupils are required to demonstrate their level of UICT competence by carrying out Tasks set in a curricular context.
Therefore when planning for assessment you should ensure that:
- pupils’ skills are applied and assessed in a cross-curricular context;
- opportunities are provided for pupils to experience the breadth of ICT (coverage of the 5 ‘E’s); and
- the correct number of Desirable Features are covered in your choice of assessment tasks: at least four different Desirable Features at Levels 1 & 2; and at least five different Desirable Features at levels 3, 4 & 5