WHAT IS PIVATS?

• A school-based assessment instrument based on the performance criteria published by the DfES and QCA known as the P scales and National Curriculum Level descriptors

• A system to inform target setting for pupils of all ages whose performance is outside national expectations

WHAT IS PIVATS?

• A system to complement and work alongside statutory assessment for children working from level P1 to L4

• An approach that may be used annually, as a baseline assessment or as a yearly measurement of added value

BENEFITS OF USING PIVATS

• Celebrate the attainment of pupils whose performance is not always recognized and valued

• Help schools demonstrate the value they add to pupils of all abilities

• Support schools in their self-evaluation processes

WHO IS PIVATS FOR?

• Pupils who attend mainstream primary or secondary or special schools, short stay schools, learning support units or resourced provision.

• Pupils who may be out of school as a result of exclusion, medical needs or school phobia.

WHAT DOES PIVATS DO?• It supports inclusion

• It promotes value-added measurement

• It promotes school self-evaluation and improvement

• It develops individual, cohort, subject and year group profiles of performance for monitoring, comparative and target-setting purposes

Data Analysis through the PIVATS web-site

• There are two PIVATS web-sites

• General information about PIVATS: http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/education/pivats

• PIVATS data analysis service: https://lccsecure.lancashire.gov.uk/pivats

PIVATS STRUCTURE

• SCIENCE [P1(i) to P8 and levels 1 to 4]– scientific enquiry

– life processes and living things

– materials and their properties

– physical processes

To do an assessment

• “best fit” the sample of work to the National Curriculum Level

• Look for which of the performance indicators can be evidenced

• Score as Level then letter (‘e’ = 1 indicator and ‘a’ = 5 indicators).

• Information for various aspects should be entered on Individual Pupil Profile (IPP).

• Don’t

• “play fast and loose” • with the performance indicators or

you will end up

• “in a pickle.”

Name: Bernard CORNFORD

PIVATS elements

Number ofPIVATS

performanceindicatorsachieved

within a leveldescriptor:

PIVATSlevel

PIVATS score

Speaking and Listening – Comprehension 1Ae 31

Speaking and Listening – Expression 1Be 26

Reading 2Cb 41

Writing 1Ab 34

Using and applying mathematics 1Aa 35

Number 1Bb 29

Shape, space and measures 2Ce 36.5

Scientific enquiry 1Ac 33

Life processes and living things 1Ae 31

Materials and their properties 1Ae 31

Physical processes 1Ad 32

Interacting and working with others PSD11d 32

Independent and organisational skills PSD10d 27

Attention PSD9b 24

INDIVIDUAL PUPIL PROFILE

PIVATS INDIVIDUAL PUPIL PROFILE REPORT

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