Recording Test Results to gain Standardised Scores and Teacher Assessment Bandings
You can
enter your children’s test scores directly in Maestro and convert them into a
standardised score and a teacher assessment judgement (Within expected, Greater
depth, Below etc). This information will then be pulled through to the Teacher
assessment page to help support teachers when they are making their teacher
assessment judgements.
Adding
test events to your timetable
To enter
test scores into Maestro, you will need to add the test to the Timetable.
To do this, you can either add a test event by clicking on the Timetable or by going
to Pupil tests then Test selection on the sidebar menu.
Adding
tests via the Timetable
- Open the Timetable.
- Click on the required date/start time on the timetable.
- Click on the blank event box.
- Select your class.
- Change the ‘Event type’ to ‘Test’.
- Search for the test either by scrolling through the list or typing its name.
- Click ‘Save’.
Adding
tests via Test selection
- On the sidebar menu, click Pupil tests then Test selection.
- Search the name of the test you want to add to the Timetable either by scrolling through each page or typing the test’s name into the ‘search’ box.
- Click on the name of the test and click ‘Add to timetable’.
- Select your class. You will then see a message to say which year and term the current test standardisation is set against.
- Click on the correct date for the test. To set the test duration for 1 hour, double-click the date. If you wish to change the duration, click the date once then change the end time in the bottom right of the calendar.
- Click ‘Create’.
Recording
test scores
If a test has multiple papers, you only need to enter the total raw score into one timetable event. You don't record the scores for each separate paper, just the total score from all the papers combined.
Once the
test has been added to the timetable, you will be able to record the children’s
test results by clicking on the test after it has been completed and selecting
the ‘Test results’ tab at the top of the modal. The modal will say at
the top which academic year the standardised conversion is based on.
Converting
the test scores
When you
type in the children’s total raw score, a calculated standardised score and its
equivalent teacher assessment judgement will appear in the first column on the
right based on the data we have already received from other schools. In the
second column the standardized scores will be corrected in line for the term
they were born in to give you an age-related standardised scores for each
child.
This may/may not be different to the calculated standardized scores
depending on how other children born in the same term have achieved.
Once the
raw scores are added, click ‘Save’. If you have completed the tests
early in the term, the date for the standardised scores may still be from the
previous year. Once enough schools have added their data for the current year
and term, the standardised score conversions will be updated.
Once this
has happened, you can then click on the green ‘Apply’ button for the
type to set the record the standardised scores in Maestro. You will then be
able to see the recorded standardised scores on the Teacher assessment page.
Reviewing
test scores
You will
then be able to see the recorded standardised scores on the Teacher
assessment page. Using the toggle, you will be able to open any other tests
that have been recorded to help inform teachers when they are making their end
of term teacher assessment judgements.
By going
into Analyse and report and Pupil tests by class, you can see a
record of all the tests with recorded scores for each class.
By
selecting a test, you will be able to view the achievement of the children.
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