by David Pott | Mar 18, 2019 | 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 this summer. Updated January 2019 These resources were updated by Capita in January 2019 to include the changes to the PAG groups and national... 
by David Pott | May 23, 2017 | Analysis, Assessment, EYFS, Intermediate, Primary, SIMS Discover
In an earlier post I described how you can install the latest EYFS marksheets and use them to calculate the GLD (good level of development) measure. I’ve also blogged about running the special SIMS report that creates an Excel spreadsheet to analyse that data.... by David Pott | Apr 8, 2013 | Assessment, Intermediate, Primary, Secondary, SIMS Discover
Here’s a quick demo of the new Discover Administration utility (you might want to expand it to full screen). The re-vamped ‘configuration utility’ (as it was originally called) is more user friendly and adopts a step-by-step wizard approach to... by David Pott | Dec 10, 2012 | Analysis, Assessment, Secondary, SIMS Discover
November 2012 saw the release of the new Exam Graphs in SIMS Discover. Unlike graphs based on a school’s assessment data (which need to be created individually by each school) these exam graphs work straight out of the box – you don’t need to do... by David Pott | Jul 14, 2012 | Assessment, Primary, Secondary, SIMS Discover
At the recent SIMS Conference for LAs and Local Support Units I chatted with Rachael Marshman from the London Borough of Merton. Since joining the Sims support team from the private sector, Rachael has helped Merton to build up a highly valued SIMS support service to... by David Pott | Feb 20, 2012 | Assessment, Beginner, Download, SIMS Discover
Here’s a simple but useful graph from SIMS Discover. It plots the APS of a single year group over a period of 6 years, term by term (in blue) against their end of year target (in pink). I’ll publish the instructions for creating your own version of this... 
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