Assessment in SRS

Parent Presentation

2018

Assessment in SRS

▸ All children in Years 1 to 6 will be assessed at

various key points throughout the school

year.

▸ These assessments will be made up of the

following:

▹ Internal Exams

▹ Assessing against Curriculum Objectives

▹ GLs

Internal Exams

▸ Children will do small internal exams based

on the content they have covered in the

term. These exams will be in Maths, English

and Science.

Progress Tests

Parent Presentation

2018

ENGLISH & MATHS

▸ All children in Years 1 to 10 will be

taking Progress Tests in English and

Maths as their end of year tests in

May/June.

▸ Year 3 & 4 will be taking these online.

SCIENCE

▸ All students in Years 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and

10 will be taking online Progress Tests

in Science in May & June.

PROGRESS TESTS

▸ The aim of the tests is to assess the

curriculum content and skills taught

throughout the year.

▸ As with any test, paper or online, not all

elements of the curriculum can be

assessed within one assessment; a selection

of the expected content and skills will be

assessed.

PROGRESS TESTS

▸ PTE/PTM 6 – Year 1

▸ PTE/PTM 7 – Year 2

▸ PTE/PTM/PTS 8 – Year 3

▸ PTE/PTM/PTS 9 – Year 4

▸ PTE/PTM/PTS 10 – Year 5

▸ PTE/PTM/PTS 11 – Year 6

MATHS – YEARS 3 - 6

MENTAL MATHS – YEARS 4 - 6

MENTAL MATHS – YEARS 4 - 6

MATHS EXAMPLE

▸ https://www.gl-

education.com/sites/gl/files/images/digital-

demos/PTM-Demo/AssessmentRenderer.html

ENGLISH

▸ PTE 6 (Year 1) tests reading readiness

(including phonics) and comprehension

based on a single passage.

▸ PTE 7 (Year 2) tests English skills (spelling,

grammar and punctuation) based on a

single passage.

▸ PTE 8 – 11 (Years 3 – 6) tests English skills and

comprehension based on two linked

passages.

ENGLISH – YEARS 3 - 6

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ENGLISH EXAMPLE

▸ https://www.gl-

education.com/sites/gl/files/images/digital-

demos/PTE-Demo/AssessmentRenderer.html

SCIENCE – YEARS 3 - 6

SCIENCE

FORMAT OF THE ONLINE

TESTING SESSIONS

▸ Tests are designed to take approximately 1 hour to

complete in Years 3 – 6.

▸ Students will be updated on the remaining time at

regular intervals throughout the test

▸ Students will have paper and pencil available at all times, should

they wish to do any working out.

▸ Should there be a technical issue, the teacher supervising will

deal with this, and ensure that the student still gets the full

allocated time to complete their test. The teachers cannot help

students with questions on the content of the tests.

▸ During the tests, the students can move forward and backwards

through the questions in all sections apart from the spelling and

mental Maths test; this is the same as if these were being

completed in paper format.

▸ Each test gives the students clear instructions through

headphones. At the start of each test section, the students will be

shown examples of how to answer the different types of

questions, and will be given a number of practice questions to do

before the actual test starts.

▸ The test commentary instructs the students to check their work

carefully before moving onto the next section and before they

click that they have finished the test. The supervising teacher will

also reinforce this message.

What are we doing to

help prepare the

students for testing?

▸ As the tests are based directly on the English National Curriculum, all that

we do every day in English, Maths and Science lessons is preparing your

child for the end of year assessments.

▸ In addition, we continue to ensure that all students have regular access to

computers to ensure that they are comfortable in using a keyboard and

mouse; indeed, most students have previously taken online tests and so are

already familiar with the format used by the company.

▸ In Maths, teachers will be ensuring that students are exposed to timed

mental Maths tests, and in English, spelling tests will be completed in the

SATs style format that is used on the assessment and will be using online

resources for comprehension, spelling, grammar and punctuation tasks.

▸ You will have also noticed that teachers have introduced online resources

in school that can also be accessed at home, which will support your child

in being more confident in working online. Please do be aware, however,

that paper and pencil will always be available, as they are intended to be

used to support students working out their answers, particularly in Maths.

When will these tests

take place?

▸ These tests will take place

throughout May and June.

▸ A detailed timetable will be

sent out to you beforehand.

TEST TIMETABLE

Why use Progress

Tests?

▸ In Dubai, it is now a KHDA

requirement that all students sit these

tests annually, therefore we have

replaced previous school based

paper tests with the Progress Tests,

rather than have our students sit two

sets of end of year exams.

Understanding the

Standardised Age

Scores

Parent Report Explained

How the school uses

the data

THANKS!Any questions?