The Skills Map, what this does is it looks at
how that student did on number, algebra, the different strands so you can begin to see
that the algebra skills are very weak. Then he got 7 out of 48, so perhaps they need lots
of only 15% of the available algebra questions they got right on that paper, so that might
tell you something about ... let's do some intervention and get this student doing lots
of algebra, work. Their geometry and measures - although that’s 12% though, they got that
congruency question right. But the probability is quite good. 36%. And their statistics.
And we can drill down even more into the algorithm. So what type of algebra? So you can really
start doing this wasn't assessed, so this one hasn't got anything. There's no in that
particular paper substitution, so it can’t read it, and they got there, was obviously
substitution formulas and equations, and there was 11 marks worth of questions on that paper
and they got zero and there you can see the residual, but you can see that students are
Grade 3 is not a strong topic anyway.
If I change that to 4:00. You'll see those residuals will change because Grade 4 algebra
should be better and suddenly it's gone down to this one. Here is gone down to minus, I
think minus 60. The thing is these do change according to the grade. The higher the grade,
this student will appear weaker and weaker so you can really start drilling down into
that situation there.
The highlight report is for me the most powerful one because again we can choose it for the
different papers. This is for all papers. But we could choose for individual places
looking exam as a whole and we can see that percent of paper two is particularly weak.
Their non calculator skills may be quite good at 24%. This one here you need the paper in
front of you or you can touch you get the topic.
Now this again is a tip for you. I used to make this one. And then were skill. So you
got your 10 best skills and 10 worst. I'm not sure about worst, maybe errors from proven,
but this here tells you the topics. So this is the one I used to print out. See the printer
I used to print that one out for the students. You can change it from 10. We could say, well,
you could say there's your 10 best ones really good. There's that conference that we saw
there. That was a good for students of that ability again. The residuals are positive,
just a little negative there. But still.
And then these are there 10 topics for improvement. So this could be some intervention work. You
do where you pick the appropriate worksheet or work or learning to fill the gaps and these
your intervention topics.
That's why I like the highlight report for an individual student. There is a way that
you can get this level of analysis for a whole cohort. If you are looking at ResultsPlus
analysis, not for mocks, but for live papers. And then you can look at individual groups
in this way again. Its
functionality is exactly the same, and these are meant to be short clips, so you could
do this for a whole cohort, the whole the whole year group.
Is he higher or foundation is probably better to do. Before split it into the two tiers
you
Could, for that particular paper, you could do it for individual groups, and when we were
doing this at my school, what we found was there was one or two topics that were really
badly answered. And when we drill down what we found was, it was when that class and that
topic was taught by a trainee teacher for that particular class and the students were
messing around.
There was another topic where the whole Department seem to do quite badly in it. And when we
looked at the scheme of work and we looked at the timing of it, it was at the time where
there was a pantomime and there was lots of kids coming out and their mind was, you know,
on different things. Sometimes there's field trips or they have to be have
injections or inoculations, and so it's worth looking at your scheme of work and seeing
where some of these key topics are placed on your scheme of work, and if other things
on the school calendar are taking students out that can have an effect and you actually
don't realize it until you do an analysis like this, but you see the residuals are really
low and they shouldn't be.
And then you think well, why was that so? This it can give you the kind of questions
you gotta provide the answers, but for this purpose looking at an individual student,
we've got a list of topics that now we can do some intervention with before they take
their exam. And
this is where we have resources, topic sheets and the themed practice papers with lots of
things on the on the Pearson website that can help you with your intervention
intervention classes.
So that's the highlight report, which I find the most useful again.
Again, the tip you need the paper in front of you, so these two here I make one. If it
was zero they just disappear and then here you can have 10. We can have 10 best ones
to really be positive and then we can. Let's just a little steps. Let's go for just five.
Let's not make it too daunting. Let's look at the five priority ones and we can do the
next term or next time will do the next 5. And then there's not so daunting.
And again how this student did on graphs and equations of lines - they did 94% worse than
the rest of the country of grade 4 students on that particular question, and that's the
power of the analysis. Say you've got the print and you've also got the option to export
it.
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