Boost - (Secondaries) Make the most out of Assessments and summative analysis

You can see a snapshot of student attainment in key subjects right from your Homepage. These figures show the percentage of students (who were enrolled at any point during the current academic year) who are above, at or below their targets. 

• If you don’t use Assessments in Arbor yet, these fields will be blank.
• For the calculations to work, the students need to have a target set for the end of the year and a current mark added.
• Blank marks and not required marks are not included in the calculations.

If you’re linked to a particular student group, for example, if you’re a teacher, you can drill down further to view just that group’s attainment for your English and Maths assessments. 

Any assessments with the subjects set as English > Reading, English > Writing, Mathematics or English will contribute to these figures. You can check the assessments from Students > Assessments > Assessment Framework > Assessment Catalogue.

School Assessment Measures can be used to create bespoke rules for one or multiple assessments combined within an academic year. For example, students who are meeting grade 4 in Maths and English literature or English Language.

You can see your key measures at a glance on your Overview Dashboard, and drill down to see statistics by year, demographic and ethnicity and take further action such as sending communications to guardians.

See this article for full details.

View a spread of your student's grades for each class for each assessment period, and compare this to their baselines using the Attainment over Time page.

The Attainment Expectation page allows you to see the percentage of children who are at different Attainment Expectations at one certain point in time, and across multiple assessment periods. You can see what percentage of students and how many students (in brackets next to the percentage) are working above, at and below their targets for the assessment period selected, and the gap between student group's attainment using the filters.

On the Expectation Over Time page you can see the overall trend line for different demographics over time for the number of students working at the selected attainment expectation, and take further action if you identify room for improvement.

The grade distribution tool lets you view the distribution of student grades for each assessment. First displaying a summary for each assessment period, you can then dig down into each strand of an assessment (for a summative assessment with strands). This is a really useful page for comparisons across classes and across assessments for the same assessment period.

The table view lets you display student names so you can see which students are in each group.

You can use this page to compare grade distributions across multiple assessments and identify room for improvement, such as in the English Literature assessment here.

Our Transition Matrix page allows you to compare student grades for different assessments, or for different years across the columns and rows of a table - useful for seeing whether students have made the same amount of progress as their peers over time in the same assessment, or comparing two different assessments.

The Statistics page shows a table of your students' average grades including average baseline, average working at grade and average target. It can also be used to find the progress made by certain groups from their baselines.