The purpose of in-school standardisation is to check the consistency of teachers' judgements before they assess pupils in their class. The APP lead teacher for the subject should run a school-based session for all teachers involved before they make their APP assessments.

Teachers assess a small sample of pupils' work from the school and/or use a training standards file (of no more than two pupils) and standardise their judgements using the APP materials. The APP lead teacher for the subject draws attention to any variations in standards and resolves the differences before teachers make assessments of their own pupils.

The standards files should be used as a reference to answer queries about or resolve differences in judgements.

The materials needed for delivering a standardisation session are:

• assessment guidelines
• standards files
• sample work of one or two pupils from the school and/or from the training standards files
• Guidance for planning and supporting in-school standardisation and moderation  (PDF 0.16 Mb)
booklet.