This week we release the results of our year 3 judging window. For this window, pupils wrote a story in response to an image prompt. Pupils completed the task in controlled conditions to ensure the writing was independent. We have explained the reason for the change to a task prompt…

We’ve just published the results of our latest Year 3 primary writing assessment. Here are some insights. Average year 3 performance in writing is largely unchanged over the past 5 years We have assessed the writing of Year 3s in October for five years now. Over that period the average…

Over the last few weeks, 1,092 primary schools have taken part in our Year 3 writing moderation task. In total, 13,085 teachers from these schools judged the writing of 48,006 year 3 pupils. The overall reliability of the judging was 0.91, which shows a high level of consistency between teachers. …

Over the last few weeks, 195 secondary schools have taken part in our KS3 writing moderation tasks. In total, 5114 teachers from these schools judged the writing of 61,416 Year 7, 8 & 9 pupils. The overall reliability of the judging was between 0.9 and 0.91, …

Today we released the results of our September 2023 KS3 writing assessments. Here are a few examples of writing at different standards across KS3.

In September 2023, we carried out a writing assessment of Year 7, 8 and 9 pupils. In total, 75 schools assessed all three year groups at once, and these are our ‘common centres’. In total, they entered about 13,000 pupils from each year group. …

This term, we ran primary and secondary writing assessments for Australian schools. This blog will summarise the results of the primary project. The secondary results are here. 2,540 pupils from 62 schools took part in the Y2 assessment 2,496 pupils from 60 schools took part in the Y4 assessment. 2,429…

This term, we ran primary and secondary writing assessments for Australian schools. This blog will summarise the results of the secondary project. The primary results are here. 513 pupils from 5 schools took part in the Y8 assessment 267 pupils from 4 schools took part in the Y10 assessment. A…

An overarching problem encountered in many a classroom is having our students write the way they speak. Why do they do this? Language acquisition is a biologically primary skill, meaning humans will naturally learn how to speak. However, the written word is a skill that must be taught. It is…