Core Idea

The key questions that drive effective data-based instruction are:

• How do we know if our students are learning?
• And if they're not, what do we do about it?

Interim Assessments

• Year-end analysis is almost useless since year is past, so interim assessments are more effective and logical

The Four Key Principles

• Assessment: Creating rigorous interim assessments that provide meaningful data.
• Analysis: Examining the results of assessments to correctly identify the causes of both strengths and shortcomings.
• Action: Teaching more effectively what students most need to learn.
• Culture: Creating an environment in which data-driven instruction can survive and thrive.

Bambrick-Santoyo, Paul, 2019 — Driven By Data 2.0

Assessment Systems

National Curriculum levels

• Example Statement: Pupils show creativity in the way they select specific features or expressions to convey effects and to interest the reader
• Possible Levels or Grades: 1-8, and 'exceptional performance'

Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP)

• Example Statement: Organize and present whole texts effectively, sequencing and structuring information, ideas and events
• Possible Levels or Grades: 1-8, divided into low, secure and high or c / b / a

National Curriculum Interim Frameworks for Teacher Assessments

• Example Statement: The pupil can write for a range of purposes and audiences: managing shifts between levels of formality through selecting vocabulary precisely and by manipulating grammatical structures
• Possible Levels or Grades: Working towards the expected standard, working at the expected standard, working at greater depth within the expected standard

National Association of Head Teachers Key Performance Indicators

• Example Statement: Identifies the audience for, and purpose of, the writing
• Possible Levels or Grades:
  1. Working below expectations
  2. Working at the expected level
  3. Working beyond expectations

Herts for Learning

• Example Statement: Evaluates the effectiveness of own and others' writing and suggests improvements
• Possible Levels or Grades: Entering, developing, securing, deepening

Target Tracker Steps Framework

• Example Statement: Evaluate and edit by assessing the effectiveness of his/her own and others' writing with reasoning
• Possible Levels or Grades:
  1. b = beginning
  2. b+ = beginning plus
  3. w = working within
  4. w+ = working within plus
  5. s = secure
  6. s+ = secure plus

Christodoulou, Daisy, 2017 — Making Good Progress?: The future of Assessment for Learning

Other Sources

• National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) (Nation's Report Card)
• National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
• Program of International Assessment (PISA)