Assessments for the primary age range

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Assessments for the primary age range Katharine
Bailey
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What you may want to know

• What are PIPS and ASPECTS?
• Why you would use them
• What is assessed and how
• What information you get and how to use it
• What support is offered
• How much it costs

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Introduction
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What are ASPECTS PIPS?

• PIPS and ASPECTS are professional monitoring
  systems
• The system provides information about
• Pupil attainment
• Relative progress / value added
• Key stage chances
• The information can be used as the basis for
  professional discussions within the school at
  pupil, class, year and school level.

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Why use ASPECTS PIPS?

• Professional monitoring
• tracking progress against curriculum goals
• making evidence-based judgments
• planning
• External accountability
• challenge judgments
• assists self-evaluation process
• Support teachers own professional judgment
• assessment results should not be a surprise

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Good assessment

• Good assessments should be
• Developed using items that are good indicators of
  later progress
• Reliable
• Test/retest
• Internal
• Manageable
• Ideally tailored to a childs ability
• Have an objective, simple method of recording
  observations

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The ASPECTS Assessment
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The ASPECTS assessment

• Uses measures that research has shown are good
  indicators of later progress
• Reliable
• Test/retest (0.84 for maths, 0.61 for language)
• Internal (0.94)
• Manageable
• takes only 10-12 minutes per child for LM
• Ideally tailored to a childs ability
• Delivers minimum number of questions to get a
  good measure of ability
• Have an objective, simple method of recording
  observations
• The computer asks the questions and records
  responses

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Format

• Multimedia CD-ROM
• Booklet and mark sheet

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What is assessed

• Assessment contains items taken from research
  which has found these areas to be good indicators
  of later achievement
• Language and maths
• Motor development
• Personal, social and emotional development

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Personal, social and emotional development
assesses

• 11 areas of development, each with a 5 point
  scale
• Comfortable
• Independence
• Confidence
• Concentration (teacher directed activities)
• Concentration (self directed activities)
• Actions
• Relationship to peers
• Relationship to adults
• Rules
• Cultural awareness
• communication

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Personal, social and emotional development

• Research base
• Developed from the PIPS Assessment of personal
  and social development

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Motor development assesses

• Gross motor skills
• Static balance
• Walking
• Sending and receiving
• Fine motor skills
• Finger movement
• Finger painting

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Motor development

• Research base
• Ian Stafford in the School of Education at Durham
  University specialist in childrens movement
  problems
• Ongoing research in the CEM Centre showing the
  relationship between motor development and
  academic performance

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Language and maths assesses

• Language
• Vocabulary
• Concepts about print
• Repeats of non-words
• Letter identification
• Writing
• Maths
• Ideas about maths
• Counting
• Number identification
• Shapes
• Sums

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Language and maths

• Research base
• Tymms Middleton (1995) Value added 5-7
• Gathercole (1995) The assessment of phonological
  memory skills in preschool children

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When to assess

• Assess the children once they are settled into
  nursery
• Children can be assessed twice, once at the start
  and once at the end of their time in nursery

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When to assess

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Practicalities

• Time needed to assess with ASPECTS
• Becoming familiar with the assessment
• Language and maths (10-15 minutes)
• Motor development (depends on arrangements and
  how much of the assessment is carried out)
• PSED (quick checklist)

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The PIPS Assessments
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The PIPS assessments

• Use measures that research has shown are good
  indicators of later progress
• Reliable
• Test/retest (0.98 for CD baseline / 0.8/0.9 For
  Year 2)
• Internal (0.94 for baseline)
• Manageable
• 20 mins for baseline / 1.5 hours for Y1-Y6
• Ideally tailored to a childs ability
• Adaptive at baseline
• Have an objective, simple method of recording
  observations
• The computer asks the questions and records
  responses

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PIPS Baseline Assessment

• Format
• Multimedia CD-ROM
• Booklet

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What is assessed

• Early reading
• Early maths
• Phonological awareness
• Attitude (at the end of reception year only)
• Short term memory (CD version only)
• Personal, social and emotional development
• Behaviour (at the end of reception only)

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Practicalities

• Time needed to assess with Baseline
• Becoming familiar with the assessment
• First assessment (15 minutes)
• Final assessment (20 minutes)
• PSED (quick checklists)
• Behaviour (quick checklists)
• Children are assessed within first 2 weeks of
  starting the reception class and again at the end
  of the year

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PIPS for Years 1 - 6
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Format

• Computer-delivered or paper and pencil test
• Pupils assessed as a class or in smaller groups

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What is assessed

• mathematics
• reading
• science (in Year 6 only)
• developed ability
• picture vocabulary
• non-verbal ability
• attitudinal measures

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Value added

• Prior
• A measure of progress from one time point to
  another
• Concurrent or Relative
• A measure of their achievement in the context
  of their developed ability

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Year 2 Mathematics
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Year 2 Mathematics
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Year 6 Mathematics
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Year 6 Mathematics
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Year 2 Reading
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Year 2 Reading
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Year 2 Reading
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Year 6 Reading
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Year 6 Reading
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Year 6 Science
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Year 6 Science
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Year 2 Developed Ability
Picture Vocabulary
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Year 6 Developed Ability
Picture Vocabulary
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Year 3 Developed Ability
Non-verbal Ability
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Year 6 Developed Ability
Non-verbal Ability
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Year 2 Attitudes
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Year 6 Attitudes
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Practicalities

• Each section takes 30 minutes to administer.
• Assessment can split over break times or days
• Assessments are administered in a two week window
• Booklets are delivered and collected by courier

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Inclusive assessment

• English as a second language
• pupils can do all PIPS assessments
• guidance in teacher administration booklet
• Pupils with special educational needs
• can do all PIPS assessments
• one-to-one

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Inclusive assessment

• Hearing impaired pupils
• Written guidance
• Video for administration in BSL
• Visually impaired pupils
• Written guidance in teacher administration
  booklet
• Modified pupil booklets
• Extra time

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IDEAS Software

• Available free
• Downloadable resource from PIPS website
• Allows you to undertake further analysis of your
  data
• Additional charts graphs
• Custom groups
• Filtering and highlighting pupils
• Longitudinal charts
• Print off additional copies of feedback
• Print feedback highlighting individuals for
  discussion with parents