I have been marking some OCR nationals GCSE coursework over the last 2 days, which has been a great chance to learn more about the course and the way that it is delivered.
The school use a really great method for monitoring the work and recoding it through access program call JAS. The Head of IT has developed a series of queries that put the work into a database that can be viewed in excel.
The process for the pupils is to submit their work to the Joint Assessment System
Then me as a teacher can print out all the levels and then goes into each pupil and clicks on the work that needs to be assessed. Once I have given it the correct grade that I feel it deserves I then put a grade and a comment for any improvements that could be made to actually increase their grade before it is submitted.
The process is made simple once you get into a rhythm and once you master the nuances of the program. It takes a total of about 5 minutes per piece of work. The hardest part is when you have to make a judgment call on quality of the PowerPoint slides.
Once pupils then receive their work back then they can make the edits to it and view what each module needs to working on.
Above and below is an example of som work that I have marked with reference to the powerpoint that they where creating.
Below is an example of the tracking and monitoring that this program achieves and helps with.
Bellow is an example of the class that have been teaching and the results that they have achieved.
