by David Pott | Nov 13, 2018 | Analysis, Assessment, Assessment Without Levels, EYFS, Intermediate, Primary, SIMS Discover
Primary schools will find these special marksheets and reports incredibly useful when analysing EYFS, KS1 and KS2 results. Introduction For a few years now, Capita SIMS have been quietly releasing a set of integrated SIMS marksheets, Excel analyses and Discover graphs... 
by David Pott | Sep 7, 2018 | Advanced, Analysis, Assessment, Assessment Without Levels, Intermediate
Hidden away in the summer 2018 release of Capita SIMS was an extra feature that will make the programme of study marksheets much more useful. Since they were introduced in 2015 (as a response to the removal of levels from the curriculum) the programme of study (PoS)... 
by David Pott | Nov 7, 2016 | Assessment, Assessment Without Levels, Beginner, Programme of Study
The programme of study marksheets are SIMS version of assessment without levels. Each statement from the national curriculum is available for teachers to assign a grade. Until the autumn 2016 release of SIMS schools have only been able to record their assessment as... 
by David Pott | Sep 26, 2016 | Advanced, Analysis, Assessment Without Levels, Performance 8
Anyone wanting to calculate their school’s A8 and P8 figures will want to use the latest A8 estimates which have been published today. Here’s the file: [gview file=”https://davidpott.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/P8Keyfigures.pdf”] 
by David Pott | Sep 13, 2016 | Analysis, Assessment Without Levels, Performance 8, Progress 8, Secondary, Uncategorized
Over the last few months many schools have been obsessing about progress 8 scores and I’ve watched a few schools get worked-up if the value of progress 8 was one decimal point above or below a specific value. That’s why it was reassuring to see advice from... 
by David Pott | Feb 1, 2016 | Assessment, Assessment Without Levels, Primary
Why Summative Baselines Matter When I go into primary schools to create an assessment system one of the main discussion areas is usually progress: how to measure it and, crucially, what baseline to measure it from. With the old sub levels, the starting point for... 
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