How does Oracy work?
Assessing Oracy provides you with two nationally standardised Comparative Judgement moderation assessments per year. Each assessment allows you to assess and moderate the oracy of 5 students from Years 4 to 9. We will provide you with a fun and relevant task that students will be asked to speak about for one minute.
We are asking schools to choose 5 pupils from across the ability range in any year group from Year 4 to 9 and then to measure their progress over successive years. By focusing on progress we believe you will have a meaningful measure that helps you compare the progress of the pupils in your school with pupils at other schools. You can assess more than 5 pupils or more than one year group, but bear in mind that the judging takes around 1 minute 30 seconds for every decision! That means if you have 5 pupils, you need to make 50 decisions, which is around 75 minutes work to be split between your teachers.
We set the stimulus so that the conditions are the same for everyone . You'll read our prompt aloud to your students, they'll have time to discuss their thoughts informally, and then you can record their response. Please set a time limit of 1 minute and don't record yourself reading the prompt.
There is a start of academic year and an end of academic year task. You can see the calendar here.
We accept MP3 or M4a files, which are the most common formats from mobile phones.
Fair and meaningful comparisons
We are asking schools to choose 5 pupils from across the ability range in any year group from Year 4 to 9 and then to measure their progress over successive years. By focusing on progress we believe you will have a meaningful measure that helps you compare the progress of the pupils in your school with pupils at other schools. You can assess more than 5 pupils or more than one year group, but bear in mind that the judging takes around 1 minute 30 seconds for every decision! That means if you have 5 pupils, you need to make 50 decisions, which is around 75 minutes work to be split between your teachers.
The topic
We set the stimulus so that the conditions are the same for everyone . You'll read our prompt aloud to your students, they'll have time to discuss their thoughts informally, and then you can record their response. Please set a time limit of 1 minute and don't record yourself reading the prompt.
The calendar
There is a start of academic year and an end of academic year task. You can see the calendar here.
Recordings
We accept MP3 or M4a files, which are the most common formats from mobile phones.
Updated on: 26/09/2024
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