Teaching At Basingstoke College Of Technology And Teaching...

I am currently teaching at Basingstoke College of Technology and teach GCSE Math’s and Functional Skills. There has been a massive focus from the government on English and maths and a great deal of pressure on schools and colleges to ensure that the pass rate for functional skills increases. Functional skills are qualifications in maths, English and ICT that equip learners with the basic practical skills required in everyday life, education and the workplace. To ensure that Functional skills are assessable to all learners they are available at Entry Level 1 through to Level 2. Employers are crying out for workers with sound Functional Skills - they are essential skills that are genuinely in demand. With good Functional Skills our†¦show more content†¦She was asked to consider how vocational education for 14- to 19-year-olds can be improved in order to promote successful progression into the labour market and into higher level education and training routes. She was a lso asked to provide practical recommendations to help inform future policy direction, taking into account current financial constraints. When Key skills was the focus point the examination would happen at the end of the year. It would consist of 40 multiple choice questions with the pass mark being 28. Now Functional skills consist of 12 questions, but totaling a number of 40 Marks. The pass mark percentage is predominately the same for the both of them. Quantitative items presented in an open-ended response formats offer at lease 3 major advantages over their multiple- choice counterparts. It reduces the measurement of error by eliminating random guessing. This is particularly valuable in an adaptive testing situation where branching decisions might be made on the basis of responses to one or two items. I will later discuss some feedback and tests which I conducted to give me a clearer understanding on how each questioning style is effective in its own way and how it could possibly be adapted to develop the best questions to test the skills of the learners. In a recent study from National Foundation Of Education Research , using blooms Taxonomy aims at a higher evaluation level. A method which currently using High-Level multiple-choice