Transcript WHAT IS PIVATS? • A school-based assessment instrument based on the performance criteria published by the DfES and QCA known as the P scales.

WHAT IS PIVATS?
• A school-based assessment instrument
based on the performance criteria
published by the DfES and QCA known
as the P scales and National Curriculum
Level descriptors
• A system to inform target setting for
pupils of all ages whose performance is
outside national expectations
WHAT IS PIVATS?
• A system to complement and work
alongside statutory assessment for
children working from level P1 to L4
• An approach that may be used annually,
as a baseline assessment or as a yearly
measurement of added value
BENEFITS OF USING PIVATS
• Celebrate the attainment of pupils whose
performance is not always recognized
and valued
• Help schools demonstrate the value they
add to pupils of all abilities
• Support schools in their self-evaluation
processes
WHO IS PIVATS FOR?
• Pupils who attend mainstream primary or
secondary or special schools, short stay
schools, learning support units or
resourced provision.
• Pupils who may be out of school as a
result of exclusion, medical needs or
school phobia.
WHAT DOES PIVATS DO?
• It supports inclusion
• It promotes value-added measurement
• It promotes school self-evaluation and
improvement
• It develops individual, cohort, subject and
year group profiles of performance for
monitoring, comparative and targetsetting purposes
Data Analysis through the
PIVATS web-site
• There are two PIVATS web-sites
• General information about PIVATS:
http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/education/pivats
• PIVATS data analysis service:
https://lccsecure.lancashire.gov.uk/pivats
PIVATS STRUCTURE
• SCIENCE [P1(i) to P8 and levels 1 to 4]
– scientific enquiry
– life processes and living things
– materials and their properties
– physical processes
To do an assessment
• “best fit” the sample of work to the
National Curriculum Level
• Look for which of the performance
indicators can be evidenced
• Score as Level then letter (‘e’ = 1 indicator
and ‘a’ = 5 indicators).
• Information for various aspects should be
entered on Individual Pupil Profile (IPP).
• Don’t
• “play fast and loose”
• with the performance indicators or
you will end up
• “in a pickle.”
INDIVIDUAL PUPIL PROFILE
Name: Bernard CORNFORD
PIVATS elements
Speaking and Listening – Comprehension
Number of
PIVATS
performance
indicators
achieved
within a level
descriptor:
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Speaking and Listening – Expression
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PIVATS
level
PIVATS score
1Ae
31
1Be
26
Reading
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 
2Cb
41
Writing
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1Ab
34
Using and applying mathematics
    
1Aa
35
Number

1Bb
29
  
Shape, space and measures

2Ce
36.5
Scientific enquiry
  
1Ac
33
Life processes and living things

1Ae
31
Materials and their properties

1Ae
31
Physical processes
 
1Ad
32
Interacting and working with others

PSD11d
32
Independent and organisational skills

PSD10d
27
Attention
   
PSD9b
24
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PIVATS Score
PIVATS INDIVIDUAL PUPIL PROFILE REPORT
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40
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20/05/00
16/05/01
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19/05/02
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