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Assessment is only as useful as it is accurate. If judgements aren’t consistent across teachers, year groups, or schools, the data can’t be trusted. Moderation is how schools make their judgements secure. This training helps your staff moderate confidently and build consistency you can rely on.
Below, we explain what our assessment moderation and consistency training involves, and how it helps you trust your data.
What Is Assessment Moderation & Consistency Training?
It’s practical training that helps teachers and leaders moderate assessment and build consistent judgements. We cover the purpose and process of moderation, running effective moderation meetings, building shared understanding of standards, and achieving consistency within and across schools.
We focus on making moderation purposeful and manageable, and tailor it to your assessment approach, whether within a school or across a trust.
Who Is This Training For?
It’s designed for all education settings: maintained schools, academies, and multi-academy trusts, Alternative Provisions, and SEND Units/Hubs. It suits assessment leads, subject leaders, senior leaders, and phase teams. Trusts often run it across schools to secure consistent, comparable judgements.
Many schools and trusts ask for it to build confidence in judgements, prepare for statutory moderation, or make data comparable across schools.
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What Does the Training Cover?
We shape the content around your priorities. You can book a whole-school INSET, a group session, or focused one-to-one support. Our most common areas include:
- The purpose and principles of moderation
- Building a shared understanding of standards
- Running effective moderation meetings
- Achieving consistency within a school
- Moderating across schools in a trust
- Preparing for statutory moderation
- Using moderation to improve teaching
- Making judgements you can trust
How This Training Helps Your School, Academy, Trust, or Alternative Provision
1
Trust your data
When judgements are moderated and consistent, your assessment data becomes reliable and useful.
2
Build shared standards
We help your team develop a common understanding of what each standard looks like.
3
Make judgements consistent
Staff learn to moderate so judgements are secure within and across year groups.
4
Compare across schools
For trusts, we help make judgements consistent and comparable across all your schools.
5
Prepare for statutory moderation
Your team will be confident and ready when statutory moderation comes.
6
Improve teaching too
Moderation sharpens teachers’ understanding of standards, which improves their teaching.
7
Reduce assessment anxiety
Confident, moderated judgements take the worry out of assessment decisions.
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How the Training Works
- 1We talk with you to understand your context, your staff, and what you want to change.
- 2We tailor the content to your setting, your phase, and your improvement priorities.
- 3We use real examples and pupils’ work, so staff practise moderating to a shared standard.
- 4We deliver the training in person or online, in a way that fits your calendar.
- 5We give you practical resources and tools your staff can use straight away.
- 6We follow up to help you embed the learning, so it sticks and changes classroom practice.
What Your Staff Get
Every participant comes away with more than notes. They get:
- Clear, practical strategies they can use in the next lesson
- A shared language and consistent approach across the team
- Ready-to-use resources, tools, and templates
- The confidence to put the training into practice
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Key Features of Our Training
Purposeful and manageable
We make moderation meaningful without adding unnecessary workload.
Tailored to your context
We shape the training around your assessment approach, within a school or across a trust.
Whole-school, group, or trust-wide
Moderate within a school, across a phase, or trust-wide. We adapt to you.
Why Choose Jarvis Education?
We work only with education settings. We know data is only useful if it’s accurate, and how moderation makes it so. Our training helps you trust your judgements, with every decision staying focused on children.
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Next Steps & How to Get Started
- Speak to one of our experts. We’ll explain how we work, answer your questions, and help you shape the right training for your staff.
- We agree dates and delivery that suit your calendar, in person or online, and confirm everything in writing.
- Contact us today to discuss how we can support your school, academy, trust, and alternative provision.
- We’re ready to help and support you.
Who We Work With
We support settings of every type across England and internationally.
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