The table below maps out the Assessment for Learning Lifecycle and identifies the teacher assessment journey and how teacher assessment
is supported by i-nfer plan.
The table below shows how and where i-nfer plan fits into your schools assessment needs and plans to support teacher assessment.
Product Set |
Purpose |
What is currently used |
What i-nfer plan offers |
Replace/ compliment |
Statutory Assessment |
Provide consistent views of school/ pupil performance |
- NC tests
- Single level tests (future)
|
- Predicts NC levels
- Helps teachers judge when a child is ready for a SLT
|
Complement |
Bought in Summative Assessment |
Provide consistent views of pupil performance |
- Commercial bought in paper assessments
- Optional SATs
- e-assessment approaches
- Many others ...
|
- Provides rich summative data as accurate as market leaders
- Standardised
- Automatic marking
- Instant reporting
|
Replace (schools may wish to run in parallel for a time) |
APP |
Support teacher assessment of pupils, and embed Assessment for Learning |
Tracking grids provided by the National Strategies |
Provides evidence towards levelling judgements within APP Assessment Focuses |
Complement |
Teaching Schemes |
Provide content to support teachers in delivering learning – often include end of unit/ lesson tests |
Various |
- Frequent, short assessments
- Provides next steps teaching advice to support differentiation
- Easily mapped to the NC/ teaching schemes
|
Complement |
Tracking tools |
Enable tracking of pupil progress |
- SIMS Assessment Manager
- PAT
- LA Spreadsheets
|
- Provides rich data to populate tracking data
- Simple data export/ import
|
Complement |
