APP in mathematics

The Subject Leaders' training day on Feb 25th 2009 at Urchfont covered the new guidance for mathematics APP. The general message was to try to use some of the new APP guideline documents for a small sample of one of your classes. The intention is that by using this assessment for say 4 or 5 key students in one class (differing abilities, attitudes etc) you can then use these as benchmark assessments for the other students in your class. Doing it in detail for 4 or 5 means you do not need to do the detail for the others. There is no requirement to maintain a portfolio of evidence for any student. The document showing level descriptions for two levels per page is found at http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/150769 It gives a two page spread for each pair of levels (e.g. levels 2 and 3, then 3 and 4 etc) with a column for each AT at and a list of the skills within each for teachers to use as a checklist for assessing a student's ability. This was published in 2008.
This link takes you to the page containing all the training materials from the Urchfont day http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/132204?uc=force_uj
The standard 2 page grid listing all key objectives by attainment target and level can be found here: http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/150773
The following link takes you to a general download and information page where you may find examples and publications which are helpful: http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/search/results/nav%3A46224+facets%3A24341