What is controlled assessment?

Controlled assessment is coursework in a supervised environment, classroom or laboratory and will be replacing traditional coursework in science GCSEs from September 2011 under different levels of control. Controlled assessment has been introduced by Ofqual to address some of the issues raised in coursework reviews, such as plagiarism.

Controlled assessment will be 25% of the course for all specifications with the exceptions of Additional Applied Science and Environmental and Land-Based Science where it will be 60%.

Specimen assessment materials for controlled assessment will be provided as part of our GCSE Science 2011 support package.