Progression & Assessment
A Level History is a challenging course. Students are required to develop their skills of primary and secondary source evaluation. They must also learn to produce persuasive, well-structured and evidenced extended written arguments in the form of essays. Enabling students to progress from GCSE level to A Level requires great skill from teachers, and timely and precise assessment with feedback is a key part. In this section you will find helpful articles, guides and resources to enable you to ensure and assess your students’ progress.
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Rescuing assessment from ‘knowledge-rich gone wrong’
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It’s just reading, right? Exploring how Year 12 students approach sources
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Building Key Stage 5 students’ analysis of interpretations
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'I feel if I say this in my essay it’s not going to be as strong’
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Nurturing aspirations for Oxbridge
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Historical scholarship and feedback
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Does the grammatical ‘release the conceptual’?
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Using causation diagrams to help sixth-formers think about cause and effect
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How do you construct an historical claim?
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Pipes's punctuation and making complex historical claims
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The Harkness Method: achieving higher-order thinking with sixth-form
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Move Me On 156: Assessment for Learning
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Teaching History Curriculum Supplement 2014
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New, Novice or Nervous? 152: Describing Progression
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Historical consciousness in sixth-form students
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Assessment of students' uses of evidence
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Why essay-writing remains central to learning history at AS level
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