Suffolk Progress Tracker

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• Progress Tracker
• Progress Tracker was developed in Suffolk LA.
• It is designed to
• Support good assessment practice in schools
• Make the teachers job easy
• Provide school leaders with useful analyses.

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• Progress Tracker our philosophy
• Progress Tracker is designed to
• Work with your existing SIMS MIS, so that data is
  kept safe.
• Give back to teachers ownership of the data.
• Allow teachers to see the whole school picture,
  not just their part in it.
• Provide school leaders with useful analyses, not
  pretty colours.

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• Progress Tracker components
• Use SIMS to manage pupils, groups and NC
  assessments and as the backup store for pupil
  assessments.
• Use Progress Tracker for teachers to record NC
  assessments. Provide instant feedback through
  charts and printouts to help teachers monitor
  each childs progress.
• Use Progress Tracker Review Module to provide
  managers with cohort and pupil group analyses for
  review and evaluation.

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Teacher

• Each term
• Accurate and up to date information taken from
  SIMS
• Teachers will see the full assessment history for
  every pupil across all subjects
• Teachers record assessments in Progress Tracker
  and view pupil progress charts and printouts
• All data exported back to SIMS at end of term

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• At end of term
• Up to date pupil and assessment history sent from
  SIMS to SLT
• SIMS can also provide other information, such as
  gender, DOB, term of entry, ethnicity, SEN, etc.
• SLT review pupil, cohort and group progress using
  features available in the Progress Tracker Review
  Module (some of these features are now available
  in the teacher module.

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Reviewing the data
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The flow of data
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Data exported from SIMS to Progress Tracker at
start of term up to date names, up to date
assessments, using marksheets
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Progress Tracker imports this data
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Teachers add assessments for this term.
Assessments exported back to the USB pen at end
of term, and..
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.. imported into SIMS. SIMS now holds all
assessments to date.
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Assessments and extra information from SIMS to
Progress Tracker
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SIMS can add extra information to the
mark-sheets. This means that you can produce
analyses by gender, ethnicity, etc. Most of the
review module features are now available in the
teacher module
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Assessments and extra information from SIMS to
Progress Tracker
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SIMS can add extra information to the
mark-sheets. This means that you can produce
analyses by gender, ethnicity, etc. Most of the
review module features are now available in the
teacher module
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Assessments and extra information from SIMS to
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Data flow in brief
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1. Admin keeps names up to date and holds past
assessments
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1. Admin keeps names up to date and holds past
assessments
2. Teachers add assessments and chart their
pupils progress
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1. Admin keeps names up to date and holds past
assessments
2. Teachers add assessments and chart their
pupils progress
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3. Leaders review the progress of cohorts and
groups
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Teachers Module details Each term teachers see a
full assessment history for all pupils historic
data is protected from accidental
changes Teachers record assessments for their
pupils each term in Progress Tracker. School will
decide which ATs are collected. Progress Tracker
provides charts and printouts to help teachers
monitor each childs progress.
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Josh is in year 5. His termly Reading (En2)
progress is visible to his teacher from the first
time anyone assessed Josh. The dotted lines join
the KS1 TA with the Fischer B and D estimates for
KS2 Reading. This gives the teacher a Track
line for comparison
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Soft Curriculum - Joshs progress can also be
plotted against school-defined criteria. The
staff together agrees what would be useful to
assess (e.g. wellbeing, disposition, attitude,
attendance) and their interpretation criteria for
the values in the range 1 to 5. Has Joshs
level of engagement affected his progress?
Engagement
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How is Josh doing against current expectation?
His maths is about one sublevel (2 points) above.
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Instant printout showing how pupils have moved on
in Reading between any 2 chosen points in time.
Have the top reading group changed since last
year? Why are there pupils still stuck on level
3B?

• National Expectation in the selected term is
  shown by
• gtAbove
• At
• ! Close, needing attention
• ltBelow

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Table showing where pupils stand in relation to
national expectation in any particular term. The
intervention group is clearly listed.
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Printout showing how far pupils have moved on in
Reading between any 2 chosen points in time.
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Comparison against Fischer estimates for this
term. James is 3 sublevels above expectation
is he the highest flyer in this class?
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The annual review printout offers a useful
history of pupils attainment and progress and
comparison against Fischer estimates for the
selected term in any chosen subject.
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The annual review printout offers a useful
history of pupils attainment and progress and
comparison against Fischer estimates for the
selected term in any chosen subject. Another
printout produces the same information by pupil.
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All assessments can be copied to Excel to enable
you to create your own analyses. This workbook
has tabs for each AT both as NC level and as
points scores. Another workbook is available
where the tabs cover attainment by term.
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Review Module Managers pick up the full pupil
assessment history for all pupils to date,
including a range of other contextual data from
SIMS that enables deeper analysis of
performance. Pupil, group and cohort level
analyses of both attainment and progress broken
down by gender, DOB, term of entry, ethnicity,
SEN, etc. enable managers to evaluate, review and
plan ahead. Analyses are available as printouts
and as interactive graphs. These features are
available in the teacher module for analysis next
term when teachers can see the full picture from
the previous term.
Review
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The review tables and charts provide analyses
showing percentages of pupils in the selected
groups. You can choose to view at actual
points or achieving each point or higher.
Breakdown of levels achieved by year 5 at end of
year 4. Average points scores are shown for each
AT. Is the whole curriculum being evenly
addressed?
Analyses for combined reading and writing,
mathematics and reading, writing and mathematics
are produced as well. What can you say about
achievers of level 3 in reading and writing?
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• Printouts can be saved as Adobe PDF files.

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• You can choose to print the analysis using
  cumulative counts, e.g. at level n and above.

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Analyses can be produced in MS Excel.
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• Percentages of pupils moving on by sublevels over
  time.

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• Percentages of pupils moving on by sublevels over
  time.

Select a grouping (the list is selected when you
create marksheets in SIMS and print the table
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Progress Tracker also allows you to create your
own pupil groups for tracking targeted pupils,
booster or intervention groups are all handled.
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• Look at whole school progress (all relevant
  pupils included.
• This can also be broken down by groups to give
  whole school pictures.

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• Information can also be graphed.
• This will allow you to investigate and research
  more effectively as all information is to hand.
• By scrolling through the drop down boxes you can
  view information on any combination of factors
• This facility is available for researching both
  attainment and progress.

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• Secure data transfer
• CTF does not hold termly assessments
• Progress Tracker can create a single securely
  encrypted data file to send to all receiving
  schools
• Receiving schools can only pick up pupils who are
  already in their SIMS system

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The web site progresstracker.org.uk contains a
wealth of information, including latest news and
a blog that answers a range of questions
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Five reasons for choosing Progress Tracker 1.
Teacher assessment the key to progress 2. Its
customisable to your needs 3. A whole school
democratic view for teachers 4. Detailed
analysis for leaders 5. Seamless transition
through school and on transfer
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Five reasons for choosing Progress Tracker 1.
Teacher assessment the key to
progress Progress Tracker uses teacher
assessments.  At the heart of pupil tracking lies
professional teacher assessment within a
framework of personalised learning.  Progress
Tracker also uses Fischer Family Trust estimates
to offer a track line. 2. Its customisable to
your needs 3. A whole school democratic view for
teachers 4. Detailed analysis for leaders 5.
Seamless transition through school and on
transfer
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Five reasons for choosing Progress Tracker 1.
Teacher assessment the key to progress 2. Its
customisable to your needs Core subjects or all
subjects? Assess once a year or three times?
Track a pupils engagement or disposition to
learning? The slots are there and you choose to
use what you want. 3. A whole school democratic
view for teachers 4. Detailed analysis for
leaders 5. Seamless transition through school
and on transfer
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Five reasons for choosing Progress Tracker 1.
Teacher assessment the key to progress 2. Its
customisable to your needs 3. A whole school
democratic view for teachers Each teacher can
see any pupils assessments to date in any
subject. Foundation subject teachers can look at
their pupils literacy or numeracy. Assessments
are shared so that the pupil can benefit from
teachers wider knowledge. The software protects
historical assessments from accidental
change. 4. Detailed analysis for leaders 5.
Seamless transition through school and on
transfer
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Five reasons for choosing Progress Tracker 1.
Teacher assessment the key to progress 2. Its
customisable to your needs 3. A whole school
democratic view for teachers 4. Detailed
analysis for leaders Progress Trackers review
module provides school and group level analyses
through printouts and charts. It can pick up
pupil attributes directly from SIMS.NET without
your needing to re-enter them Gender, FSM, SEN
status, Ethnicity, EAL, Looked-after, and
more. 5. Seamless transition through school and
on transfer
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Five reasons for choosing Progress Tracker 1.
Teacher assessment the key to progress 2. Its
customisable to your needs 3. A whole school
democratic view for teachers 4. Detailed analysis
for leaders 5. Seamless transition through
school and on transfer Progress Tracker uses
SIMS.NET marksheets so that you can pick up
classes, teaching groups or year groups for each
subject. While other tracking packages can only
take data from SIMS, Progress tracker can also
feed it back.  Progress Tracker ensures that all
pupil assessment data is stored securely in
SIMS.NET and stays with the pupil.
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How do I get Progress Tracker? Progress Tracker
is available to all schools that use SIMS. The
cost of the software is 200. This includes a
half-day to visit, install and train key staff
(SIMS admin and assessment). The annual licence
is currently around 100 and is renewable in
April. Schools purchasing between January and
March get the next licence free. Federations and
groups should enquire about group
licences. Training and refresher courses for key
staff/new users are available, as planned events
or as site visits.
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www.progresstracker.org.uk enquiries_at_progresstrac
ker.org.uk