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Updated: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 | Printer Friendly Version | |

EIS WELCOMES OUTLINE OF NEW ASSESSMENT FOR CFE

The Educational Institute of Scotland has welcomed today’s announcement from the Cabinet Secretary, and a publication from the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) Management Board, which outline future assessment arrangements to be utilised in support of Curriculum for Excellence.

Welcoming today’s statement and publication, EIS Education Convener Larry Flanagan said, “The outline assessment arrangements for Curriculum for Excellence, published today, are a significant step forward.  The EIS welcomes these proposals, which set out an improved assessment system to support the broad educational experience that is central to the Curriculum for Excellence.”

Mr Flanagan added, “This new system will support teachers’ professional judgement in assessing how individual pupils are progressing in their learning.  It also marks an important move away from the discredited tick-box approach to assessment that some education authorities continue to cling to.  Such simplistic, target-driven methods of assessment have no place in the new, enriched learning experience for all pupils that CfE is helping to enable.  The announcement today re-affirms the commitment given in Building the Curriculum 3 to delivering an assessment system that is based on teachers’ professional judgement.”

“It is now essential that all local authorities sign up fully to these new methods of assessment in order to ensure that Curriculum for Excellence can deliver all that it promises for Scottish pupils,” Mr Flanagan said.  He added, “In particular, there must be a commitment to high quality CPD arrangements for all teachers in order to support understanding and application of the standards embedded within CfE.”