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- Welcome to this episode
about unpacking Early Start Reports.
Early Start responses entered in OneSchool
provide a range of student reports
to help teachers and schools
understand individual student needs
and the next steps in planning
for literacy and numeracy.
Early Start reports give cohort class
and individual student literacy and numeracy data.
Monitor and track student literacy and numeracy progress
and can be colour coded and filtered
through Excel to make analysis of data easy and effective.
To support colour coding of Early Start data,
the working with Early Start assessment exports
in Excel document can be found in one school help.
Early Start data in one school
provide schools with instant access to a variety of reports.
Early Start reports can be accessed in one school
by navigating to the reports tab,
then selecting curriculum in the dropdown menu.
Early Start reports that teachers can access are,
Early Start assessment results by question,
Early Start assessment results by student,
Early Start assessment student reports,
Early Start students summary report
and Early Start assessment summary by class or year level.
Let's take a closer look at each of these reports
and how to analyse the data of each.
The Early Start assessment results by question report
provides teachers with information
for each item in each of the assessment junctions
and identifies individual student responses.
This allows teachers to interrogate questions
where students may display
varying degrees of knowledge and understanding.
This supports teachers to target teaching as needed.
In addition, teachers have an opportunity
to look for anomalies in the data
and to triangulate the data with other sources
to confirm findings.
Using this report also allows teachers
to align planning of particular skills
to the Australian curriculum
and set goals for individual students.
The Early Start assessment results by student report
allows teachers to see at a glance student responses
for complete assessment.
It allows the teacher to target
particular student learning strengths
and areas that may require support.
It also allows teachers to set goals
with individual students in literacy and numeracy.
The Early Start assessments student report
allows teachers to take an in-depth look
at individual students.
Teachers are able to analyse individual student responses
across each assessment task to identify gaps
and set learning goals with students.
The Early Start assessment student report
displays observations and comments
teachers have noted for individual students
providing a rich picture of student understanding.
A number of Early Start reports
represent student progress using graphs.
To interpret these graphs, it is important to understand
the developmental model of growth
that underpins Early Start.
The Early Start assessments were designed to determine
where students are in their learning
against a scale of literacy and numeracy growth.
The scales were developed by the Australian council
for educational research ACER
in their extensive longitudinal literacy
and numeracy study and calibrated with Queensland students.
The majority of students will be positioned
within the grey bars with a small number of students
outside of this range.
An advantage of using Early Start
is the questions are designed to demonstrate
the range of student development and growth.
The graphs in Early Start reports show student achievement
in relation to the average
indicated by the position of the dot above
or below the line.
This is compared to their achievement
in the previous assessment
indicated by the colour of the dot.
Black lines on the Early Start graphs
show the average achievement of Queensland students
for that assessment.
The colour of the dots are a key.
Black dots indicate that
the student has not completed a previous assessment.
Green dots indicate the student
has demonstrated improvement
based on their previous achievement.
Yellow dots mean the student
has demonstrated understanding of concepts
the same as their previous achievement.
And red dots indicate that the student
has demonstrated an understanding of concepts
less than their previous achievement.
The Early Start students summary report
allows teachers to see at a glance
individual student's progress
after the completion of end of prep assessments
compared to their previous task for literacy and numeracy.
The Early Start assessment summary by class or year level
provides teachers with two options to analyse class
or year level data.
The Early Start assessment summary report
can be sorted by school or student name.
The sorted by school view or a student assessment results
from the lowest school to the highest school,
allowing teachers to see at a glance
students who they may target
for further investigation and support.
This sorted by student name view
order students in alphabetical order.
This view may be helpful for teachers or school leaders
looking for patterns in the data
for year level or cohort of students.
The student dashboard on one
provides a quick overview of student progress
in Early Start.
Navigate to the student dashboard by clicking on student,
student profile, enter student details
and click on the view icon then dashboard.
Select Early Start to show Early Start literacy
and numeracy data on graphs
for those assessments where all questions
have been completed for that student.
As with the Early Start students summary report,
the Early Start literacy and numeracy data
on the student dashboard identify student achievement
compared to their previous task.
One of the great benefits of Early Start
is the results are automatically mapped
to appropriate markers on the P-10 literacy continuum.
This allows for ongoing monitoring
of students literacy development and supports teachers
to identify students strengths, challenges
and next steps in literacy learning.
Early Start used in conjunction with the literacy continuum
allows schools and teachers to monitor student literacy
and numeracy progress across the early years of schooling.
Many Early Start responses provide teachers
with the opportunity to monitor students
authentic demonstration of continuum markers.
For more information visit the early stock page
on the learning place or contact the Early Start team.
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