Janet de Maine

Sims Assessment

Improving Primary School Usage• Vision for 2014-2015

• To Increase the number of Capita SIMS pre-defined resources that schools can import and use immediately.

• Enhance functionality where possible to improve usability make SIMS Assessment easier to use.

Spring New EYFS Resources• EYFS resources schools can import and use:• Data Entry Templates: Streamlined for efficiency

Assessment Resources

Spring New EYFS Resources• EYFS resources schools can import and use:• Progress Templates:

Spring New EYFS Resources• EYFS resources schools can import and use:• Tracking Grids to review Progress and Attainment:

Spring New EYFS Resources• EYFS resources schools can import and use:• Aspect Analysis

Spring New EYFS Resources• Discover Graphs

Spring New EYFS Resources• EYFS resources schools can import and use:• Group Analysis

Summer 2014 New KS1 & KS2 Resources

• Assessment with Levels

• Enhanced KS1 and KS2 progress tracking Marksheets, Tracking Grids and Aspect Analysis for the core subjects of Reading, Writing and Maths.

• Assessment without Levels

• Progress Grid to reflect the new curriculum

Summer New KS1 and KS2 Resources KS1 & KS2 resources – Enhanced Tracking Marksheets for Reading, Writing

and Maths

Summer New KS1 and KS2 Resources

Tracking Grids to review progress

Summer 2014 KS1 & KS2 resources – Aspect Analysis Attainment

• By count, percentage of results or Average Points Score

Summer 2014 KS1 & KS2 resources – Aspect Analysis Progress

• By count, percentage of results or Average Points Score

Summer New KS1 and KS2 Resources• Assessment without Levels

Assessment Progress Grid – New Curriculum

Assessment Features

Discover Result set selector on T/F Bar Graph

Summer 2014

Assessment Mapping Facility• Schools or LAs can match their own locally generated Aspects, Grade Sets

and Result Sets to those provided by Capita SIMS. • Once ‘mapped’ Pre-existing data will copy into Capita Resources so schools

can take advantage of pre-defined Marksheets, Tracking Grids, Discover and other Analysis tools..

Summer 2014

Assessment Mapping Facility Mapping Aspects

Summer 2014

Assessment Mapping Facility Mapping Result sets

Summer 2014

Assessment Mapping Facility Mapping Grade sets

Summer 2014

Aspect Swapping Speed up resource creation by swapping like-for-like aspects when cloning

Summer 2014

Other enhancements Group Rows by Cell Colour

Summer 2014

Other enhancements Hide / Unhide selected columns

Summer 2014

SIMS Assessment Road Ahead

• SIMS Assessment will continue to support the use of levels for as long as schools find the resources useful

• Resources are also being added into SIMS to help support a life without levels that will evolve overtime.

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The Road Ahead• Scomis have made a significant investment in a School Improvement

Program using Assessment within SIMS to achieve an easy to use, comprehensive and cost effective way of tracking and improving pupil progress.

• Working closely with the School Improvement Strategic Lead within DCC

• Talk to Scomis before considering a third party solution.

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