Assessing technical knowledge in the IT and computing classroom

Quizzes, practice questions and assessments to test your KS3 and KS4 ICT, IT or computing students.

Tes Resources Team

Students Having Their IT Knowledge Assessed In The Classroom

Challenge your students with these assessments, quizzes and practice questions

Testing your student’s theoretical and practical knowledge is an important part of making sure that the content you are teaching is being fully understood. Online or offline, here is a hand-picked selection of resources that will help you find out how your classes are progressing, as well as highlighting any crucial gaps in knowledge. 

KS3 resources

COMPUTING Year 7 Baseline Assessment (On-line version)
Nichola Wilkin

COMPUTING Year 7 Baseline Assessment (On-line version)

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This test is to be given to year 7 pupils to test their current knowledge of key computing areas. This will help you understand their current strengths and weaknesses at the beginning of year 7 and includes a useful spreadsheet which not only highlights pupils understanding but also groups it by cla...
Hardware Drag and Drop Quiz
rcook2sc

Hardware Drag and Drop Quiz

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Quiz to assess learners hardware knowledge, created in Word 2007; it may work in other versions but not on Macs. Macros must be enabled for the program to automatically mark the answers & print the learner's first attempt. Please leave feedback. If you have any problems send a message via TES...
KS3 Networks - Assessment
RobbotResources

KS3 Networks - Assessment

£2.50
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An end of unit assessment for the topic of computer networks. The test has been made to be printed and answers written. The test takes around 30 - 45 minutes to complete, allowing for peer assessment to be conducted within the same lesson. The assessment covers the follow topics: Network ty...

KS4, iGCSE and Post-16 resources

Computing progress test 9-1 grades
maxwell01782

Computing progress test 9-1 grades

£3.00
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46 mark progress test suitable for year 10 or year 11 computer science students. Covers hardware, embedded systems, algorithms, algorithmic thinking, abstraction, decomposition, CPU, RAM etc. No mark scheme just the paper.
Year 12 ICT Progress Test and Mark Scheme
maxwell01782

Year 12 ICT Progress Test and Mark Scheme

£2.50
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Test suitable for year 12 students to check progress or as a revision aid. There is an editable word document to allow you to customize the content/layout if you like and a .pdf file to use straight away. There is a mix of questions including a longer question at the end to test QWC. It is out of...
Computational Thinking End of Unit Test
Nichola Wilkin

Computational Thinking End of Unit Test

£4.00
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This written end of unit test can be used to assess the pupils understanding of Computational Thinking. It asks questions on decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, algorithms, creating flow charts including using selection and iteration and pseudocode including INPUT, OUTPUT, IF THE...
[GCSE+IGCSE] Computer Science PYTHON Arrays
PaperAirplane

[GCSE+IGCSE] Computer Science PYTHON Arrays

£5.99
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Included: 10 project based activties. These address some standard algorithms (Search, Find Max and Min) and build into some menu building areas which uses Functions/Procedures. Solution files to all projects, including any advanced/challenge areas Links to video lessons for some projects End of Unit...