Reforms to assessment & accountability
for primary schools
Chris Smith
Head of Education Technology, Essex County Council Project Director – Target Tracker
Emma Breckenridge
Deputy Headteacher - Kingfisher Academy Assessment leader, Cuckoo Hall Academy Trust
What is happening next year?
• New Performance management arrangements • New pay arrangements
• New SEN arrangements • Reduced funding plans
• New FSM arrangements for KS1
Its about giving you more choice about what
to keep and what to remove
Principles of Effective assessment systems
Give reliable information to parents about how their child, and their child’s school, is performing
a. Allow meaningful tracking of pupils towards end of key stage expectations in the new curriculum, including regular feedback to parents.
b. Provide information which is transferable and easily understood and covers both qualitative and quantitative assessment.
c. Differentiate attainment between pupils of different abilities, giving early recognition of pupils who are falling behind and those who are excelling.
d. Are reliable and free from bias.
Principles of Effective assessment systems
Help drive improvement for pupils and teachers
a. Are closely linked to improving the quality of teaching.
b. Ensure feedback to pupils contributes to improved learning and is focused on specific and tangible objectives.
c. Produce recordable measures which can demonstrate comparison against expected standards and reflect progress over time.
Principles of Effective assessment systems
Make sure the school is keeping up with external best practice and innovation
a. Are created in consultation with those delivering best practice locally.
b. Are created in consideration of, and are benchmarked against, international best practice.
A few surprises
• The EYFS profile has been replaced
with a new baseline test early in YR.
• No changes to P-scales.
• Early years assessments will be put in the hands of publishers
• Infant schools that don’t use a commercial test will be measured on
attainment alone. (schools may make decisions based on their historical patterns of performance.)
• A new Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling test introduced at KS1 to inform the writing mark.
What !!!!
• ‘Sufficient progress’ – a key
accountability measure – has not been defined.
• The new progress measure won’t come into force until 2023
• The results of KS1 assessment won’t count for Primary schools
• The government is intending to publish performance descriptors for the end of KS1 and KS2 in the Autumn, but they will be simple
A shift of approach in the curriculum
From To
Processes & skills
Knowledge
Development
Acquisition
A shift of approach in assessment
From To
Differential tests Can/can’t tests
Best-fit level descriptors Pass/fail descriptor
Levels Test scores &
What will happen at the next election?
Target Tracker’s
Solution
Aim
• To have one system which allows assessment of both Levels and the new curriculum
• Enables teachers to see what a child has learned on their journey to mastery
• Shows which children are not on track for secondary readiness
• Allows Senior managers and teachers to show current and future attainment and progress of their groups and
Steps
b Beginning
b+ Beginning +
w Working within
w+ Working within +
s Secure
Age bands in grey
Yr 3 Yr 4 Yr 5
W+ S S+ B B+ W W+ S S+ B B+ W
Chris Sp2
Tracy Sp2
Progress made in year 3 Progress made in year 4
Y3 s+ Y4 b Y4 b+ Y4 w Y4 w+ Y4 s 4 S+ Y5 b
Reading 2 3 3 4 5 6 4 3
Y3 s+ Y4 b Y4 b+ Y4 w Y4 w+ Y4 s 4 S+ Y5 b
Reading 2 3 3 4 5 6 4 3
Y3 s+ Y4 b Y4 b+ Y4 w Y4 w+ Y4 s 4 S+ Y5 b
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Y3 s+ Y4 b Y4 b+ Y4 w Y4 w+ Y4 s 4 S+ Y5 b
Reading 2 3 3 4 5 6 4 3
Y3 s+ Y4 b Y4 b+ Y4 w Y4 w+ Y4 s 4 S+ Y5 b
Reading 100%+ 85%+ 75%+ 71%+ 64%+ 61%+ 52%+ 23%+
Y3 s+ Y4 b Y4 b+ Y4 w Y4 w+ Y4 s 4 S+ Y5 b
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Report to show progress
Target Tracker will have:
• Facility to record performance descriptor judgements
• Record all statutory tests across EYFS to KS 2
• Record the new baseline test
• Record non statutory tests and results can be correlated with TAs for validation purposes
• Will produce reports to show any year vulnerability against new floor targets
2b 42 2b+ 43 2w 44 2w+ 45 2s 46 2s+ 47 3b 48 3b+ 49 3w 50 3w+ 51 3s 52 Subject
Pupil Term Show Term Assessed
Statements
2b 42 2b+ 43 2w 44 2w+ 45 2s 46 2s+ 47 3b 48 3b+ 49 3w 50 3w+ 51 3s 52 Subject
Pupil Term Show Term Assessed
Statements
Reading Spring 2
2 3 - 4
2b 42 2b+ 43 2w 44 2w+ 45 2s 46 2s+ 47 3b 48 3b+ 49 3w 50 3w+ 51 3s 52 Subject
Pupil Term Show Term Assessed
Statements
Reading Spring 2
2 3 - 4
Subjects
Core Subjects
Writing
Attainment Targets
Number- Addition and Subtraction
Mathematics
Number – Number and Place Value
Measurement Number - Fractions
Ratio and Proportion Statistics Number – Multiplication and Division Geometry Algebra
Attainment Targets
Number- Addition and Subtraction
Mathematics
Number – Number and Place Value
Measurement Number - Fractions
Ratio and Proportion Statistics Number – Multiplication and Division Geometry Algebra
count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100; find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number
Target Tracker has the data for 1 million
children in 2500 schools
• We will be using this to help schools
benchmark their
school against what is happening across the country.
• To show attainment and progress in the new steps for each year.
St Mary’s Primary School Oak Tree Primary School Riverside Primary School The Blue Primary School Holy Trinity Primary School St Andrew’s Primary School
