Transcript ICT – Meet the Team

Baseline testing in Reporting and Assessment
Patrick Moore – Head of Assessment and Reporting
Baseline Assessments:
 Short ‘curriculum free’ tests
 Measures ‘developed ability’ to succeed
 Good predicators of future performance in most
subjects
 Not intended to be absolute predictor
 Used in many schools, to inform teaching and
learning and set students targets
Granada Learning Assessment - GL
 UK based company that provides online
educational resources that include Cognitive
Testing
 Used by us for testing on entry and all key stages
across the Primary and Secondary school
 Tests are tiered for specific ages
The nature of the tests..
4 components
 Vocabulary
 Math’s
 Non verbal
 Skills
 Only the results form Math’s and Vocabulary is used
to generate the predicted grades & levels
GL (11 - 18)
Age
11
12
GL
Year 7 (11/12) or
Year 8 (12/13) + Additional
or Year 9 (13/14)
13
14
KS3
GL
Year 10 or
Year 11)
15
16
GL
GCSE (KS4)
( Yr 12/13)
17
18
IB (KS5)
Example: KS3 Level against Test Score
Regression line
Key Stage 3
Score
Pupils
performing
better than
expected
Pupils performing
worse than expected
GL Test Score
Feed-back provides:
 Band Profile Graphs
 Predictions of performance at KS3 and GCSE and IB
in a vast majority of subject
 Individual Pupil Records (IPRs)
 Suggested Learning and Teaching strategies for
teachers.
The idea of bands
 All the raw marks are Standardise and scaled from 50
to 150 with 100 taken as the average
 Top 25% on all the test scores go into band A
 Next 25% into band B
 And so on…
 Give a useful snapshot of what the cohort might be
like……..
Bands and Standardised scores…
C
B
A
D
0
50
60
70
80
90
100
110
120
130
140
150
Standardised scores ( e.g. Test Scores)
1
9
Baseline Test Nationally Standardised Feedback
Overall: Percent in each Band
Year 7 MidYIS Test 2005/2006
100
90
80
70
Percent
60
50
39
40
28
30
24
20
10
9
0
D
C
B
A
An intake like the national sample, in terms of its average ability and range of
abilities, would have 25% of pupils in each band
Individual Pupil
Record
Date Of
Birth:
30/05/95
Sex:
F
3200
7J
Nationally Standardised Scores with 95% Confidence Band
Band
Standard Score
Vocabulary
D
86
140
Math's
A
134
130
Non-Verbal
A
114
Skills
A
123
Overall
Score
B
109
Nationally Standardised Scores
150
120
110
100
90
80
70
60
50
Vocabulary
Maths
Non-Verbal
Skills
MidYIS Score
So what the value of all this data to the classroom
teacher?.....
IPRs: identify students strengths and weaknesses and can
be used: ( most able , GT etc..)
1.
To set work appropriate to their ability
2.
Identify literacy weakness
3.
Set group work with a balance of skills
Predictions:
1.
Give an indication of expected average achievement
and enable the setting of appropriate subject targets.
2.
Target grades can be used to monitor progress and
allow intervention along the learning journey.
Suggested Learning and Teaching Strategies for
teachers
 Identifies preferred Learning styles
 Suggest ways for improved student learning
Reporting - Monitoring Student Progress
Review outcomes:
 Make reporting less Summative and more Formative
 Focus on looking forward not back – set clear
SMART targets for student improvement.
 Reintroduce End of Key Stage Targets
 Increased parents consultation
 Increased tracking and analysis of assessment data
 Use of the above to initiate intervention strategies
 Formalise review process throughout the year
Proposed Reporting Schedule – 2014- 2015