New ways to use assessment information
- What does it mean to use data diagnostically and evaluatively?
- Diagnostic - Determine students strengths and needs
- Evaluative - What is their progress in relation to others? How successful have teaching progress and practices been?
- The tests have been designed to show progression of learning in a specific subject
- These tests are only one form of evidence and sit alongside other forms of data to assess learning needs
- PD should be offered to all new staff on how to dissect and best use the data from PAT assessments
- These questions should inform the decisions you make in assessment practice - What is working well and why? What is not and why?
- An understanding of how the tests were designed can help to use them more effectively
- Scales can be used to measure progress between terms, over several years and even just between tests e.g. pre and post intervention programme
- Aligned to NZ Curriculum levels - Once a child achieves a scale score you can find what curriculum level they are working at
- Do we as teachers have the opportunity to decide who sits what test when? Our school is set a certain test to deliver to students but what if they are not currently working anywhere near this level? Will this still accurately show progress? Do we need to work on personalising our tests?
- Scale descriptors allow you to determine accurate next steps from these assessments
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