Curriculum assessment analysis

Go to Students > Assessments > Formative Tracking > Analysis > Overview.

Use the filters to view the data for different curriculums, modules, students and more. You can swap between viewing your statistics in percentages and the grades you have defined in the filters. Just click the box at the top of the page and select your Grade Set.

You will then see Curriculum Mastery and Average grade defined in your school's terminology.

The Curriculum Completion is the % of the curriculum which has a mark against it. It is calculated by dividing the total number of statements assessed by the total number of possible statements.

The Curriculum Completion in the example below is 75%. This means that if there are 100 curriculum statements, 75 of them have been marked.

The Average Mark is the average mark a student has ONLY on the curriculum statements that have been assessed. If only 5 statements out of 10 have been marked then it is the overall average of the 5 marked statements.

In the example below, the average mark is 62.6%. This means that if you average the mark of the 75 marked assessments, the average mark is 62.6%.

Each mark given in the Curriculum Assessment marksheet is given a weighting between 0% and 100%. For example, you may have these options:

• Working towards = 33%
• Working at = 67%
• Working at greater depth = 100%

When finding the average mark, Arbor will round up or down to the nearest judgement. Here's some example average scores, and the overall judgement they correspond to.

Curriculum Mastery refers to the average mark a student has out of the entire curriculum they are being assessed against. If a student was being assessed on a curriculum with 10 statements and only had 5 statements marked, the average comes from those 5 statements/10. To calculate the Curriculum Mastery, multiply the Curriculum Completion by the Average Mark.

To calculate the Curriculum Mastery for the example below, find 75% of the average mark. This calculation is 0.75 x 62.6 = 46.95, which rounds up to 47%. You can see this percentage under the Curriculum Mastery heading.

The Progress over Time chart shows the average curriculum mastery on a month by month basis, so you can see how the average curriculum mastery is progressing over time.

This lets you identify periods when the curriculum mastery may have stayed relatively static or is not progressing at a quick enough rate so that interventions can be planned.

You can filter the chart to compare the rate of progress for different groups or demographics.

This page allows you to identify periods when the curriculum mastery may have stayed relatively static or has not progressed at a quick enough rate. With the average mark, you’d want to see it staying relatively high before students start covering new content. A drop in the average mark may indicate that more is being taught and not everything has been grasped fully yet.

You can see how the Average Mark is calculated in the How is Curriculum Mastery calculated? section above.

You can apply filters to the data and change the curriculum by clicking on the filter bar.

The key at the top of the page shows you which mark each colour corresponds to. Clicking on a particular mark highlights this mark in the chart.

Clicking on the bar for a module or submodule will show the breakdown of marks inside that module. 

If you hover over the mark bands within a module you will also get a complete breakdown of who the students are who have attained the mark for that particular statement.

When you view all students, you can take further actions from here such as sending a communication or adding students to an intervention. You can also click on the student's name to be taken to the attainment area on their profile.

The reporting page is designed to inform you about the progress of individual students over the year to date, monthly or half-termly - just choose your date range in the filters.

You can also choose to view your marks using different grade sets. This lets you display your data in a range of different ways for different audiences.

If a child has gone from being On Track to being Below in the summer term, you can raise this with their teacher. Or you may see a big leap in attainment as a direct result of a child being part of an intervention programme.

Using the filters, you can choose the Curriculum you want to view, grade set, students and choose to group students e.g. EAL v not EAL.

You can for example view all assessments for a particular group of students (e.g. Maths, Reading & Writing for all year 3 students) to identify which subjects/assessments are a cause for concern.

If, for example, maths and reading has the majority of students at secure, but writing has a large number of student still developing, you can follow up with the teacher. 

You can filter the chart by student groups such as FSM vs non-FSM or boys vs girls by clicking into the filter bar. 

This information can be viewed as a table or chart by clicking on the tabs at the top of the report. Clicking into each ‘band’ will allow you to see the % of students the results are relating to.

Click on the filter bar to select specific subjects, choose the date you want to focus on, or just look at specific student groups (e.g. pupil premium, or year 4).

By clicking a chart you can view the breakdown by the curriculum, student group or individual student.

Click on the filter bar to change the subjects or students being displayed. You can also choose to view on track or not on track and change the way the data is grouped. This is shown by different sets of lines on the graph.

Click on the filter bar to change the filter and grouping settings. Apply groupings to change the rows in the table, for example, pupil premium vs not pupil premium.

The student group average shows the average for the students you have filtered to, whereas the school average shows the average for the whole school.