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The amount and volume of assessment for students at the end of key stage 4 is “excessive and unnecessary,” the general secretary of the NAHT has warned.
The Government launched a review of curriculum and assessment in schools and colleges in July last year.
The volume of content, the reliance on final exams, and the average of 30+ hours of exams per student at the end of key stage 4 are all excessive and unnecessary.
We must move away from an almost exclusive reliance on fully linear, terminal exams, and instead allow modular assessments and reintroduce more non-exam assessment and project-based assessments, in order to complement exams and better assess what students know and can do.”
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