STA exemplification and standardisation materials

Future opportunity of an ITT to be issued by the Standards and Testing Agency (STA), on behalf of the Department for Education, to carry out a competitive procurement exercise to award a contract for video and material creation services.

The contract will be for a 12-month period, with an optional extension of up to an additional year, subject to STA requirements and STA budgetary approvals.

STA requires creation services for:

Standardisation trial:

• Creation of three pupil Standardisation scripts and commentaries for key stage 2 (KS2) teacher assessment following the existing standardisation format
• Creation of two teacher judgment videos supporting two of the pupil scripts
• Creation of three teacher judgment transcripts supporting all the pupil scripts
• Creation of 2-3 additional pupil materials, per pupil script example, in accordance with current Standardisation exercise material format
• Completion of user testing feedback to provide clear understanding and comparison between video and transcript user feedback
• Quality assurance review of all created materials

Exemplification materials:

STA requires external professional proofing, enhancing and creation services for:

• Proofing, enhancing and quality assurance review of existing KS2 teacher assessment frameworks exemplification materials;
• Creation and quality assurance review of new KS2 teacher assessment frameworks exemplification materials.