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Standards Files

The current Standards files from the National Strategies are based on work planned and assessed in relation to the 1999 National Curriculum programme of study. A new set of Standards files based on the 2008 National Curriculum were in production, but this set will provide useful guidance on making Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) assessments against national standards in the transition period as the new programmes of study are introduced.

The commentaries in the Standards files are provided for guidance and reference, and are much more extensive than would be expected of any teacher.

The evidence base presented in each Standards file is necessarily partial, as it would of course be impractical to reproduce all of each student’s work. Examples of each student’s work have been selected to provide evidence to support judgements against APP criteria. This evidence should be considered in conjunction with the teachers' notes, which will provide a broader context and further justification for the assessments that are made.

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