Download or read book Independent Review of Key Stage 2 Testing, Assessment and Accountability Final Report written by Independent Review of Key Stage 2 Testing, Assessment and Accountability and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this final report the Review finds that there must be external school-level accountability in the system but that more trust should be placed in teachers, with a greater weight given to their assessment of pupils. A wider range of data - including new progress and attainment measures, and rolling averages - should be taken into account to give a less arbitrary and fairer picture of a school's performance. Recommendations include: the current writing test should be replaced by teacher assessment of writing composition; maths should continue to be externally tested; reading tests should continue but should be refined over time; science should continue to be teacher assessed with a sample test to monitor national standards; speaking and listening should continue to be teacher assessed; three-year rolling averages should be introduced to give a rounded picture of a school's performance; there should be a greater emphasis on the progress of pupils; new progress and attainment measures should be introduced for pupils who have completed all of Years 5 and 6 in a school; teacher assessment judgements should continue in English, maths and science, and should be submitted before test results are announced; there should be more detailed reporting to secondary schools so Year 7 teachers know right from the outset a pupil's attainment and the areas where extra work is needed; pupils who are ill on the day of a test should have a week to sit it, rather than two days.