Top Marks

Project Summary

This project developed sets of ‘rich tasks’ for primary science that engaged, empowered and invigorated assessment.  It explored the potential of using ICT to facilitate the recording and evidencing of pupils’ progress, and integrated the development of children’s personal, learning and thinking skills and teaching and learning which was based on ‘rich tasks,’ which were: context-rich, activity-rich and response-rich.

Additional

Top Marks is a highly innovative Continuous Professional Development project, which invigorates the assessment of science with fun, relevance, real life and engagement for youngsters. The main focus is on the difficult issue of 'how to assess' primary science in a way that supports standards, engages learners and makes assessment a truly integral and exciting part of school life, instead of something that is feared or that creates apprehension for teachers and learners alike.

This project has produced 17 sets of ‘rich tasks’ for primary science that will engage, empower and invigorate assessment. It uses ICT to facilitate the recording and evidencing of pupils’ progress, and integrates the development of children’s personal, learning and thinking skills.