Assessment and Progression

Effective assessment in KS3 history should do more than measure what pupils can remember. It should help teachers understand how well pupils are developing their historical knowledge, conceptual understanding and ability to think and work as historians, while also giving pupils clear guidance on how to improve.

This section provides practical guidance on assessment and progression across Years 7, 8 and 9. Explore the principles of effective history assessment, assessment for learning, designing meaningful assessment tasks, judging pupils’ work, pupil target setting and planning for progression across key historical skills and concepts. The aim is to help departments build assessment approaches that are manageable, purposeful and closely connected to the history curriculum.