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The The Year 1 SP Assessment Analysis Program complements the SP Educational Services
Assessments which support a school's Assessing Pupils' Progress Strategy for mathematics.
The program is an invaluable tool when using the SP Educational Services Assessments.
Once the results from the assessments have been entered into the program using the
simple drop down boxes on the data entry page, the Year 1 SP Assessment Analysis
Program will:
analyse the performance of pupils against the objectives of the Renewed Framework,
highlighting which objectives need further reinforcement and where any gaps in learning
may have occurred. This process underpins the principles of effective AfL.
provide APP analysis for every child. It gives teachers an excellent starting point
when assessing pupils' progress - this can then be built on using a variety of sources
such as annotated work from maths lessons, post it notes, pupil observations etc.
Below is an example of a child’s highlighted APP grid for Ma2:
The grids are colour coded to make it easier to track progress throughout the year
- Yellow (Unit 1), Green (Unit 2) and Blue (Unit 3). Teachers can manually highlight
the APP grids and add comments linked to the highlighted cells, referencing other
sources of work that have formed their pupil assessment i.e. observational notes
made during work and teacher / pupil discussions etc. The Year 1 SP Assessment Analysis Program will:
provide diagnostic information about the strengths and weaknesses for every child
for the 7 strands of mathematics and in doing so, facilitate teaching that is matched
to pupils' needs.
The Year 1 SP Assessment Analysis Program has classified each question into one of the
7 mathematical strands - Using and applying, Counting and understanding number,
Knowing and using number facts, Calculating (solving numerical problems), Understanding
shape, Measuring and Handling data. These strands relate to the objective of each
question. Using the data from the strand analysis, a graph is produced for each
child for the 7 mathematical strands. Below is an example of a child’s strand analysis
graph:
The columns in the bar charts are colour coded; each column represents a particular
unit - Blue = Unit 1, Green = Unit 2, Red = Unit 3 (Chloe had some gaps in understanding
for Understanding shape in Unit 1 but excelled in her work on Calculating (solving
numerical problems) in Unit 1, for example.)
The Year 1 SP Assessment Analysis Program will also:
use data from the strand analysis, to produce a graph showing how each pupil in
the class has performed for each strand of mathematics in comparison with the class
group.
comprehensively track pupils' progress, providing a National Curriculum level for
each unit and end of year. The levels are traffic light coded; this makes it easy
to identify children working within or above the expected level (green), just below
the expected level (yellow) or well below the expected level (red).
provide whole school data analysis - the mathematics subject leader can use the
pupil and class graphs to identify whole school areas for improvement or development.
This enables the setting of meaningful curricular targets for the whole school.
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