These reports from QCA evaluate the National Assessments at Key Stage Three. Their purpose is to provide schools and those involved in the training of teachers with detailed information about student responses to the National Curriculum tests.

This resource from Alpha Plus published in December 2010 is the independent evaluation of the pilot of the linked pair of GCSEs in mathematics. The linked pair of GCSE qualifications are: ‘Methods in mathematics’ and ‘Applications of mathematics’. The two qualifications...

This report on the single level tests pilot from QCA provides a factual account of the first three single level test sessions (December 2007, June 2008 and December 2008), setting out the test model, the test development process, the standard-setting processes and the...

This resource from the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) contains the Statutory Assessment Tests for the year 2003, and their associated mark schemes, which were taken during May in the final year of Key Stage Three. The papers are tiered to facilitate an...

This resource from the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) contains the Statutory Assessment Tests for the year 2004, and their associated mark schemes, which were taken during May in the final year of Key Stage Three. The papers are tiered to facilitate an...

This resource from Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) contains the Statutory Assessment Tests for the year 2005, and their associated mark schemes, which are taken during May in the final year of Key Stage Three. The papers are tiered to facilitate an optimum...

This resource from Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) contains the Statutory Assessment Tests for the year 2006, and their associated mark schemes, which were taken during May in the final year of Key Stage Three. The papers are tiered to facilitate an...

This resource from Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) contains the Statutory Assessment Tests for the year 2007, and their associated mark schemes, which were taken during May in the final year of Key Stage Three. The papers are tiered to facilitate an...

This resource from Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) contains the Statutory Assessment Tests for the year 2008, and their associated mark schemes, which are taken during May in the final year of Key Stage Three. The papers are tiered to facilitate an optimum...

This resource from the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) contains the Statutory Assessment Tests (SATs) for the year 2009, and their associated mark schemes. This was the last statutory test for this Key Stage before they were abolished. The papers are...

These National Curriculum level eight questions from the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) were devised as optional assessment materials, they present a question in the familiar Key Stage Three style, but come complete with a commentary on the question, some supplementary questions and a comprehensive...

This report, from the Nuffield Foundation, focuses on the crucial period between GCSEs and entrance to higher education, and how mathematical, statistical and quantitative skills develop during this period.

The report has three aims: to outline the current state of play in post-16 mathematics and the...

A multiple choice quiz on measurements, materials, forces and motion in A level physics.

Although it is written for OCR AS/A level ...

This activity is designed to enable students to gain a deeper understanding of the topic of variance and the difference between finding the population variance and the sample variance. Students might expect that the sum of the deviations would be divided by n when finding the sample variance instead of (n-1). The...

The teaching unit ‘...