Understanding A Level Assessment Objectives – Lesson Plan – OCR

Understanding A Level Assessment Objectives – Lesson Plan – OCR

This one-lesson resource takes students through
• The four Assessment Objectives
• The Marking Criteria
• How to apply the AOs and marking criteria to a project of theirs

My students complete this lesson at the end of term one, year 12, once they have produced a range of work, allowing them to assess their own work against expectations and standards and to prepare them for what is expected for the EST.

The resulting worksheets can be placed on display for future reference.

Resources you will receive are
• Lesson Plan (as seen in the description box for this recourse)
• X4 A3 sheets, one for each AO, stating the AO and giving space for students to make notes. This is the main activity.
• A3 copy of the marking criteria

Resources you will need
• Print outs of the above
• Pens/highlighters
• Dictionaries or students smartphones
• One personal project per student for them to assess

**Lesson Plan **
Place students into small groups, give each group one AO print out. Try to give an even number of AO sheets out. I tend to go for eight groups, or two groups for each AO.

Ask the students to highlight the key words in their AO, then to look up the meaning/definitions of that word (using dictionaries or smartphones). These definitions should be recorded around the AO in the space outside of the cloud shape.

Once the definitions are recorded each group should simplify their AO into layman terms in the In Summery section at the bottom.

Starting with AO1, ask the group(s) to read out their key words, definitions and in summery explanation.

Ask students to review their work against the marking criteria sheet (one per student). I always get them to put a line through the first two boxes saying they will produce work better than that, so we start to review in box three. Students should tick descriptors, or parts of descriptors, they feel they are achieving, moving up box-by-box until they think they cannot award themselves any more ticks (marks).

From there they review the levels they have not reached and then write down one or two targets at the bottom of the marking criteria sheet for improvement for future projects.

This requires teachers to lead, making suggestions to the group and 1-2-1. Students find this hard but helpful so it needs to be well lead by you.

Repeat this process for AO2, then AO3 and AO4.

**At the end, each AO has been readout, explained, simplified, reflected upon linked to the marking criteria and the students own work and targets set. **

I hope you and your students find this resource helpful. If so please review. Many thanks.