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Annual Pupil Profile

1Nov04 Strategic Advisory Group 2

The Annual Pupil Profile

• Highlights continuity of progress and attainment

• Builds up, over time, a realistic picture of a pupil’s attainment, skills

and capabilities, attitudes, aptitudes and interests

• Indicates areas for improvement and future learning

• Ensures parents, pupils and teachers share the same realistic

picture


The Annual Pupil Profile

• Will inform decisions in all years in all key stages

– Foundation Stage (Years 1 - 2)

– Key Stages 1 and 2 (Years 3 – 7)

– Key Stage 3 (Years 8 – 10)

– Key Stage 4 and after?

• Not a suitable instrument for use in a selection procedure


Trialling 2003-04

Primary schools 2003 – 2004

• Liked holistic picture of the child

• Levels and superscripts were useful

• Qualitative reporting accepted for

- Learning Areas

- Personal Skills and Capabilities

- Attitudes, Aptitudes and Interests

• ICT support was OK


Issues emerging

• Manageability

• Teachers’ familiarity with levels

• Consistent application of standards between schools

• Degree of parental understanding


Action being taken in 2004-05

• Improve User Confidence

• Ensure consistency

• Simplify the report

• Improve ICT systems


Improving parental confidence

• Make parents aware of the assessment process and how it works

• Make parents aware of the QA already in place– Continuing Professional Development– CCEA face to face and online support– Standardised assessment items and tasks– Exemplar materials– Agreement trials– CCEA moderation

• Explain how issues of “bias” and “objectivity” are dealt with

• Emphasise the continuity of the Pupil Profile and what it means and how to use the information


Ensuring consistency

• Common approach to assessment

• Common criteria for assessment

• Use of agreed standards

• Use of standardised tasks and assessment materials eg Alta materials

• Use of exemplification to illustrate Standards

• Training including agreement trials

• Quality assurance procedures (including local moderation?)


Making it manageable

• Level and comment for – Language and Literacy– Mathematics and Numeracy– ICT

• Comments on– Personal Development, The Arts, World Around Us, PE and RE

• Collective/generic comments for – Skills and Capabilities– Attitudes, Aptitudes and Interests

• Highlight key areas for improvement not targets for all areas


Improving ICT systems

• More automated input

• Improve quality of comment banks

• Make the system more user friendly


Making it meaningful

• Provide a context for the report (leaflet and online) for parents

• Explanation of levels and what they mean (parent speak!)

• Benchmarks for each year eg Current arrangements Year 7 English

– average level

– the range of levels (mid 50-60% of pupils)

• Guidance on interpreting and using the information

20% 60% 20%

3+ to 4+

Level 40


Trialling of Key Stage 3 Profile2004-05

• Annual Reporting involving comments on– Attainment in Learning for Life and Work and the General Learning

Areas– Skills and capabilities and attitudes, aptitudes and interests

• And commentary on and measurement of– Communication, Using Mathematics and ICT

• Areas for improvement

• Opportunity for pupil input and parental feedback


Key Stage 3 Issues

• Collation of information eg – Logistics– Number of GLAs / subjects contributing to LLW, Skills and

Capabilities, Attitudes, Aptitudes and Interests– Who pulls it together and writes the overarching comments

• Report on all elements every year eg L&G Citizenship or Modern Languages?

• Report on all skills and all capabilities every year?


Key Stage 3 IssuesParents

Pupil Profile must

• be meaningful for parents – information is more diverse

• connect parents and schools

• help parents and pupils decide on appropriate educational pathways


Accreditation of schools

Accredit schools which put in place policies which reflect best practice in formative and summative assessment

• Make use of CCEA face to face and online support

• Put in place appropriate structures and processes

• Provide sound guidance and online systems for record keeping

• Ensure there is Internal standardisation and preparation for moderation

• Set out school policy for developing Annual Pupil Profile

• Engage in ongoing CPD


Significant Dates

• Last Transfer Test will be in November 2008

• The outcomes of the Transfer Test will be used in 2009-10

• Pupil Profile must be available to parents whose children are transferring from primary to post-primary schools in 2010-11

• Most useful Pupil Profile will be the Year 6 Profile generated in 2008-09


Key Stage 2 Timeframe

First Cohort to transfer using Pupil Profile (PP)

2006-07 Year 4 Current KS1 Assessment and Reporting based on current curriculum and arrangements

2007-08 Year 5 Pupil Profile - statutory or voluntary/?

2008-09 Year 6 Pupil Profile must be statutory

2009-10 Year 7 Year 6 Pupil Profile used to inform parental choice

Year 7 Pupil Profile completed June 2010

2010-11 Year 8 First Pupil Profile Cohort takes places in post-primary settings


Key Stage 3 Provisional Timeframe

2010-11

First cohort arrives in post-primary schools with a Pupil Profile in Sept 2010

Pupil Profile statutory in Year 8 in this year

Key Issues to be decided

Is Pupil Profile also to be statutory in Years 9 and 10 in 2010-11?

Date of the last Key Stage 3 Tests


Core Objective

To help parents and pupils in all school years decide on appropriate educational choices / pathways / courses by

• providing consistent, high quality information about pupils’ progress, aptitudes and interests

• ensuring that the information is meaningful to parents and easily understood

• providing a basis for discussion between parents, pupils and schools

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