Formative Assessment: Initial Guidance statement

With the removal of the use of levels for assessing progress in National Curriculum subjects, schools are now able to focus their teacher assessment and reporting in D&T, not on a set of opaque level descriptions but on the essential knowledge, understanding and skills that all pupils should learn. The short statement (found as a pdf below) provides out some commentary from DfE and sets out some guiding principles to inform the development of schools’individual approaches.