User:Camiadmire/Evaluate an Article

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National Curriculum assessment - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
''I chose to evaluate this article for this exercise due to learning about vocabulary instructional strategies this week. I believe national assessments are closest related. National assessments use a wide variety of vocabulary in numerous ways to test a student's knowledge. My preliminary impression was that was that the article was just going to explain to me what national assessments were.''

Evaluate the article
I am going to be annotating or noting on the National Curriculum Assessment article by sections. I found this article to be informative but lacking some aspects. While I am excited to have my first opportunity to evaluate a Wikipedia article, I release I have room for growth. Please feel free to provide me comments or feedback about my format or suggested edits. Reviewed By Cambria Admire

While I found this article had valuable information, it was a bit disorganized. Here are my suggestions.


 * Create a vocabulary section. I was having difficulty reading certain portions of your work due to the repetition of a unfamiliar word. This word was statutory or GCSE. You could place the vocabulary section at the top of the article or Wikipedia page for readers to see before they become engrossed in the text. The vocabulary section could consist of any difficult terms in your text especially education related language. When I say education related language, I mean any language that is specific to the education field.
 * Place the sections describing the different key levels prior to the history section. I was disappointed to find the history section repeatedly mention terms that had not been discussed yet. These terms were key stages 1,2, and 3.
 * Create a section describing key 3. If you are going to reference it in your text, you should dedicate a section to talking about it for the reader. This would help make your text clearer and more decisive.

Additional Suggestions


 * I would suggest researching where SATS are utilized or impended further. You seem to only mention England. I live in the Illinois within the United States where I very distinctly remember SATs being used. Broadening your scope will only help diversify your text further.
 * You stated "The assessments are made up of a combination of testing and teacher assessment judgements" . I would suggest explaining what that combination of testing and teachers' assessment judgements are for clarity. Do the test teachers conduct in class, on a more consistent basis, determine what is in the SAT? Does teachers' "grade" the SAT?
 * I would suggest making sure the article resources are as up to date as possible. Are SATs still used in schools?

Additional information seeking questions that could be used to help improve the text further

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 * Why were assessments scrapped at the secondary level?
 * Why it the SAT only required for Math, English, and Science. Was social studies not considered a core subject at the time?
 * What type of formal or traditional task replaced the SAT? Some examples?
 * What happens if a student does not meet the expected level?