You can keep track of your children’s progress by using our range of analysis tools. The tools allow you to monitor how your children perform in relation to age-related expectations. They're easy to use and creates an instant picture of the individual, group and whole class attainment.
The Test analysis page will take the children's raw scores that you have added to Maestro and convert them into a standardised score based on how other children who have taken the same test at the same time have scored. For more information, please read the Test analysis article for more information.
The attainment and gap analysis tool enables you to monitor the strengths and weaknesses of your class/group in detail.
For every child, you can note the number of marks achieved per question, and the spreadsheet will highlight question types using the RAG rating below:
Red: questions that may need revisiting, require a different teaching approach or has not been taught yet.
Orange: question types that may need further consolidation work.
Green: question types where knowledge and understanding is secure enough to move forward.
Every question will show the percentage of children achieving full marks for that question, it will also group the total scores for each type of question, for example in reading, it will give the total score for retrieval, sequencing, inference etc.
How we analyse test data and create the conversions (methodology)
When we analyse all test data that is recorded by schools in Maestro, we always use a minimum of 1,000 pupils per year group for every test. This ensures that the data is statistically viable. We don't use the number of schools as a factor for our analysis as the number of schools varies depending on the year group and the type of test.
The results are entered into a bell curve where the mean score is calculated. We then use the standard deviation to work out the key boundaries which allows us to create the ARE bandings and standardised scores.