e-Assessment - Maths Paper A - End of Year 6
Formative Assessments with No Marking
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Description:

The e- Assessment software is aimed as a revision tool to prepare the students for the National Tests -SATs. It emulates the National Tests and saves the teacher, setting and mapping questions, marking, scoring, identifying levels of attainment and undertaking a detailed strand/topic analysis of the areas of challenges within the class. It also ensures acccuracy and makes target setting quick and visible. An excellent tool that supports the process of assessment and cuts out mundane manual tasks. It maintains the one-one individulised testing and provides feedback to the teacher instantaneously.

Features:

• contains five e-Assessments that emulate the KS2 QCA format for Paper A
• the focus on Paper A is on assessing mechanical and mathematical skills
• the assessments test the concepts in the National Numeracy Strategy and provides the attainment level just like the actual SATs.
• provides feedback on the areas of difficulties through a detailed grid report.
• provides levels of attainments- both individual and class, strand analysis report, number of questions attempted/not attempted
• the view button allows the teacher to address questions that the class or an individual has struggled with.
• highly compatible with an interactive whiteboards or with tablet PC's.

Reporting:
Individual Progress Reports:
- Bar charts: Levels for each assessment.
Class Progress Reports:
- Class attainments
-individual attainments
-strand/topic report
-number of questions attempted
-class levels for each assessment in firstname/surname or ascending/descending order

Incentive Certificates:
- On completeion of assessment, indicating the level of attainment.

Age Range: 10-11 Ideal for KS2

Evaluation Copy:

Try before you buy. Ask for an evaluation copy or for a numeracy consultant to visit your school.

Look at our Product Store for e-Target Assessment Maths Key Stage 1 Software or Call our Hotline: 0203-113-2066 or e-mail to JellyJames

Benefits:

• Emulates the National Tests format.
• Set assessments, questions mapped, marked, scored and reported.
• Detailed Grid report that provides Levels of attainments for both the class and individual child.
• Provides a strand/topic analysis on the outcome of each assessment for each student and a summarised report for the class.
• Optional Voice icon which can be used to read the questions
• Excellent revision tool
• Questions checked and reported with predicted level of attainment.
• Feedback is logged and allows the test to be repeated as many times.
• Saves administrative time logging scores
• Ensures accuracy with marking and recording
• Makes target setting visible and quick
• Gives instant feedback at the end of the assessment.
• Teacher and student can view individual progress through a bar chart that informs the student of the level of attainment.
• Teacher can gauge the class progress through the "All Users" page and Certificates can be printed at the end of each test.
• Cheaper than paper based assessments
• Use the assessments next year and forever without purchasing, photocopying and marking
• The software can be used this year, next year and forever!
  
  Case Study

Historic Climb for Essex Primary
Last year for the first time in the history of Essex Primary, 21 children gained Level five in the Maths National Tests at Key Stage 2. This was a record breaking achievement for Essex Primary.

Essex Primary uses portable laptops to its students on a one-one basis. Yolanda Samaria, the schools ICT head, attributes the successful Year 6 2003 Maths results to the hard work, coordinated approach by teachers and the timely use of the JellyJames Target Assessment Key Stage 2 Maths Paper A and B software.

A cultural shift from the use of paper based assessment to electronic assessment and training of staff to use the ICT resource efficiently has saved substantial classroom and teacher time. This cultural change was supported from top down. Traditionally, preparing students for the National Tests was time consuming, paper and resource intensive. The software tool now provides information within seconds of completing the test without the teacher engaging in any paperwork.

JellyJames have attempted to closely match the National Tests electronically which is an area that Becta and QCA have been closely researching.

Year 6, students work through the assessment software, which very closely emulates the actual tests. Instant and immediate results from these assessments identifies areas for focus, along with each child's Level of Attainment, providing timely and targeted information. The easy to access information, then allowed the teacher to address the weaknesses quickly and reinforce the concepts. This was the first time in the history of Essex Primary, 21 children gained Level 5's in the Maths National Tests.

Yolanda explained, "the teacher can quickly identify how each child has performed on each question and in seconds gauge the common areas of difficulties." This year the school has purchased a projector and Yolanda and her team will be able to use the software even more effectively. The questions from the assessments that have proved challenging will be projected onto the white board thus engaging the group collectively. The software, unlike paper based assessment can be used year- on- year, without the need to photocopy, mark and generate paperwork.

The teachers have found that "the software is beneficial as it differentiates the work of every child in the year and makes target setting visible and quantifiable. It further reduces the enormous time spent in setting, marking and analysing assessments. The school is moving away from traditional paper based assessments to electronic assessments as the ICT medium is thoroughly enjoyed by the children and it provides feedback immediately both to the teacher and the student". A tool that gives teachers more direct contact time and supports the process of preparing students for the tests.