Assessments – migration and evolution
David Vincent, Sales Director
GL Assessment
The Assessment (R)evolution
• Where we seem to be heading with Assessment in schools
• Life after KS3 SATs extinction
• An Introduction to e Assessment
Where we were
• Mandatory ‘End of Key Stage’ tests (SATs)• Optional SATs• Teacher assessment• Commercial assessments, summative and formative
Where we are
• Optional end of Key Stage 3 National Tests• Teacher assessment• Commercial assessments
Where next?
• Assessing Pupils’ Progress (APP)
• Daily, periodic and transitional assessments
(including assessment of summative and formative type)
• School Report Card
Assessing Pupils’ Progress (APP)
• ‘Assessment is at the heart of an effective curriculum and is a fundamental part of good teaching and learning’
• ‘Assessment enables learners to recognise achievement and make progress, and teachers to shape and adapt their teaching to individual needs and aspirations’
• ‘Central to achieving this vision are the assessing pupils’ progress (APP) materials’
Mick Waters, Head of Curriculum, QCA
The APP rollout
The DCSF Assessment for Learning Strategy (May2008) sets out the financial and professionaldevelopment support available to your school to helpdevelop APP.
The expectation is that by 2011 all schools will haveembedded the APP approach to teacher assessment.
Timetable for APP materials
Published 2008/9 Future
Key Stage 2
Reading,
writing and
mathematics
Key Stage 3
Reading, writing and Mathematics (revised)
Key Stage 1
Reading, writing and Mathematics
Key Stage 3 Science
Key Stage 3 ICT
Key Stage 3
Foundation Subjects
Key Stages 1, 2 and 3
Speaking and Listening
Primary
Science
‘Daily’ assessment opportunities
• Extended or shorter focused pieces of writing in a variety of different forms for a range of purposes
• Information from different curriculum areas• Text annotation or visual organisers such as thought
mapping, storyboards or timelines• Oral work, such as pupil presentations to the class• Contributions to class discussions, drama activities or
discussions with teachers• Observations of learners’ behaviour and interactions• Learners’ self-assessment (AfL implications)
Formal assessments
• To make a holistic judgment need supporting information. – We have looked at day to day data and assessment
opportunities but we will also need information from periodic and transitional assessments, of both summative and formative types.
• What can GL Assessment offer?– ‘Periodic’– ‘Transitional’
The Guardian
‘Sats don't have all the answers’
Fran Abrams, Tuesday 21 October, 2008
The Guardianwww.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/oct/21/sats-schooltables
‘Transitional’ assessments
Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT)
Reports
CAT KS2 Report
‘Transitional’ assessments
Suffolk Reading Scale (SRS)
The School Report Card
Aims of the School Report Card Target Group
• Provide a clear set of outcomes against which a school will be judged• Recognise the value of schools’ work for all children• provide a balanced account of outcomes achieved and the degree of challenge facing schools
Schools
• provide a balanced and comprehensive account of each school’s performance• Inform parents choice of school and improve schools’ accountability to parents• Provide information in an easy to understand format
Parents
• Provide a means of supporting the vision for 21st century schools• Help to hold schools to account for what is most important• Incentivise schools in the right way
Government
• Support the school inspection process Ofsted
The School Report Card
An Introduction to e-Assessment
• Online testing from GL Assessment• Tests available online• The Testwise online delivery system• Why test online?• Report function• Live demo• Q&A
Online tests from GL Assessment
• Assessment is our business - over 3 million students take our tests each year
• Over 40 tests for students of all ages• Measuring reasoning ability, processing skills, literacy and
numeracy skills and screening tests for SEN• Our five most popular tests are now available online –
CAT, SRS, GRT, PiM and PiE• Our online delivery, scoring and reporting system (Testwise)
manages the process• Over 500,000 online tests taken in 2008
Online tests from GL Assessment
Cognitive Ability Test
(CAT) Age 7:6 - 17
Suffolk Reading Scale
(SRS) 6 - 14
Group Reading Test
(GRT) 6 - 14
Progress in English
(PiE) 7 - 11
Progress in Maths
(PiM) 6 - 14
Testwise online delivery system
• Suite of administrative tools used to load and assign candidates to tests, manage the users and maintain the database
• Delivers the test to the student • Reporting tools that can perform complex analysis, processing
and reporting functions
Why do e-Assessments anyway?
• Same rigorous results as paper and pencil tests• No more marking - results available automatically, seconds
after the tests are complete• Detailed, diagnostic reports that highlight areas of strength
and need• Online testing is motivating for students with the test feeling
less formal and intimidating• Compatible with most MIS systems• Better knowledge, better teaching• Reclaim (some of) our Sunday evenings
Reporting results
• A variety of analyses of the same data• Reports can be run more than once to enable inclusion of
‘catch-ups’ in the analysis• Information can be imported as csv data file or downloaded
as a pdf• Reports include rich, meaningful data on ability, knowledge
and potential, and offer grade indicators for public examinations, if required
Live Demo
An Introduction to e-Assessment
Assessments – migration and evolution
David Vincent, Sales Director
GL Assessment
Assessments – migration and evolution
David Vincent, Sales Director
GL Assessment
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