Test outcomes and features
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What does this mean for you?
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Standardised score
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See whether a pupil’s attainment is above or below the national average for their year cohort.
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Age standardised score
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See how a pupil is performing against other pupils of the same age, calculated in years and months.
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GPS age
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Get a quick measure of attainment against the age at which a pupil’s performance is typical.
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Strand analysis, including strand national average
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See strengths and weaknesses of your pupils’ language skills across grammar, punctuation, vocabulary and spelling to inform future teaching.
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Facility value for every question
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See the percentage of pupils who answered each question correctly in the standardisation trial.
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Performance indicators
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Identify whether pupils are meeting performance expectations for their year.
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Hodder scale
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Measure pupil progress with this independent scale. Useful for tracking and predicting performance of children who are working outside of their age range but continue to make small increments of progress for their year.
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Standardised in 2016/17
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Compare performance and progress of your Year 1 to Year 6 pupils with confidence.
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Supporting manuals, including mark schemes and test guidance
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One manual per Key Stage, providing administration guidance, mark schemes, outcome tables, technical information and all the information needed to administer, mark and report on each assessment.
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Free comprehensive curriculum maps
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Ease planning and ensure that all content is taught before administering the tests with free comprehensive curriculum maps that break down the national curriculum into a meaningful term-by-term programme of study, segmenting skills and content into termly ‘chunks’.
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Free access to online assessment and reporting tool, MARK
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Trusted by over 6,000 schools for valid, easy-to-use assessment and reporting and used by teachers to analyse over 4 million papers.
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