Asset in action

Centre Administration and Support

Two Girls Your first point of contact with OCR is through our Customer Contact Centre on 01223 553998 or assetlanguages@ocr.org.uk.

The Contact Centre staff can answer questions about Asset Languages and despatch information on the scheme. They will also route more complex queries through to the correct department.

You can also try the FAQ section of this website. And if your question isn't answered, you can use our feedback form to ask us directly.

Asset Languages Guide

A Support Guide for Introducing Asset Languages. This document replaces the Stage Guides and Teachers Handbooks and covers the first four stages of the Languages Ladder.

pdf icons  Asset Introductory Guide - Autumn 2008

Asset Languages FAQ

A new 4 page document which covers all of the Asset Languages basics. This handy guide will be sent out with registration confirmation but you can also download it here.

pdf icons  Asset Languages FAQ - Spring 2008

Centre Support Update

pdf icon  Centre Support Update 8 - July 2008
  Centre Support Update 7 - February 2008 
pdf icon Centre Support Update 6 - November 2007
pdf icon  Centre Support Update 5 - June 2007
pdf icon Centre Support Update 4 - March 2007
pdf icon Centre Support Update 3 - November 2006
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Centre Support Update 2 - May 2006

pdf icon Centre Support Update 1 - January 2006

Asset Languages presentations

PowerPoint presentations which can be used in meetings or INSET to explain the basics about Asset Languages Assessment to staff and to students.

presentation icon  Asset Languages introduction presentation slides (480k)
presentation icon Why Asset Languages? -  Yr 9 presentation slides (648k)

Asset Languages for senior management

We have produced a template to help with proposals to your Senior Management Team for adopting the Asset Scheme. The document sets out the benefits of Asset assessment for learners and to the centre and should be adapted to address the particular requirements of your school or college.

word icon  Asset Languages senior management proposal -  (94k)

Report to centres

This report is designed to inform centres of issues that arose in relation to the external assessment tests in 2006/07 and incorporates feedback from centres, examiners and moderators.

pdf icon  Report to centres on external assessment 2006/07

Asset Languages in the Classroom

We hope to produce a range of support sheets which provide examples of Asset Languages in use. The first in the series is about fitting Teacher Assessment Speaking tests into lesson time.

pdf icon  Asset Languages in the classroom - Speaking Assessments (194k)

Progress Sheets for Teacher Assessment

Electronic versions of the progress sheet template found in the Teacher Assessment Pack - so you know when learners have achieved their Grade Award Certificate.

xls icon  Teacher Assessment Progress Sheets (240k)

Task templates for teacher assessment

A key feature of teacher assessment is that teachers are allowed to adapt tasks to suit their schemes of work. To make this easier, some task templates are now available electronically. We are starting with Breakthrough and Preliminary tasks for listening and reading, with other stages and skills to follow.

zip file Teacher Assessment Task Template - Breakthrough Reading (0.9 MB)
zip file Teacher Assessment Task Template - Breakthrough Listening (1.9 MB)
  Teacher Assessment Task Template - Preliminary Reading
  Teacher Assessment Task Template - Preliminary Listening

The Breakthrough files have been zipped for ease of download. To open the word documents inside, please download to your computer and double click on the zip folder.

Case Studies

See our case studies section for details of how our centres are getting on with the scheme. A summary of latest case studies gave been provided for you to download;

 pdf  06/07 Case studies brochure (821k)
 pdf  05/06 Case studies brochure (188k)


Case Study

"I think it's an approach which works well for adult learners as they can focus on the skill that interests them."
Assessing adult learners in Brent

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