{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assessment-arrangements-for-key-stage-3-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assessment-arrangements-for-key-stage-3-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/422",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Assessment Arrangements for Key Stage 3) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assessment-arrangements-for-key-stage-3-order-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Assessment by teachers",
  "text": "(1) In relation to each relevant subject, each pupil shall be assessed by a teacher in accordance with this Article in the period commencing on 1st January and ending on a date in the same school year specified in the Assessment Document (both dates inclusive) and a record of the results shall be made by that teacher not later than a date specified in the Assessment Document.\n(2) The teacher shall determine each pupil’s level of attainment achieved in relation to each attainment target in each relevant subject by reference to the level descriptions for each attainment target specified for that subject.\n(3) The record of results made under paragraph (1) for each pupil shall consist of a statement of the level of attainment achieved in relation to each attainment target as determined under paragraph (2).\n(4) In making an assessment of a pupil under this Article a teacher may take into account any previous assessment of that pupil (whether or not made by that teacher).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 in operation at 20.10.1997, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/422",
      "affecting_title": "Education (Assessment Arrangements for Key Stage 3) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/422/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:27:11.678086+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}