Standards and Testing Agency - Item Writing Call-Off - Contract Awarded

AWARD NOTICE

This call-off contract is let under the terms and conditions of the Item Writing Services Framework Agreement STA-0246 and is for the provision of item writing services for Key Stage 2 English Reading Work Package 1, Informal trialling of eight key stage 2 texts and a proportion of their associated items.

Work Package 1 consists of: - informally trialling: - three easy fiction KS2 texts and all associated items (approximately 30 marks' worth of items for each text that will include one and two mark items) - one mid non-fiction KS2 text and all associated items (approximately 40 marks' worth of items that will include one, two and three mark items) - four hard fiction KS2 texts and all associated items (approximately 30 marks' worth of items for each text that will include one, two and three mark items).

- meeting to discuss findings and recommended changes to items

- submission of an informal trialling report, including findings and proposed amendments to the materials.