PIPS assessments?

[Cortina]

Can anyone tell me what primary schools use PIPS assessments for?

Is it possible to get hold of question papers for year one and reception age children?

Trying to get an idea of what format they take and sort of questions asked.

You can't really prepare for them as such - ours do verbal , non verbal reasoning and numeracy paper, which are multiple choice I think. tbh dc have done them in year 2/3 and 5 we are dubious about the usefulness of the scores unless they demonstrate that your chidl is significanlty over/under performing their potential in specific areas. I'm not sure they are designed for any younger as a level of independent literacy is assumed.

Thanks. Seems we do them in reception and year one plus in our school. Why? I will ask. As a check they are in the right sets for ability etc?

From what I saw on line I think showing them to a child before they were 'tested' could help enormously, at least for mine. Unless of course they are familiar with the format when they are 'tested'?

Our Pips are all done on the computer.

Do all schools do pips? I've never heard of it.
Be careful though Cortina - it sounds like something whereby practicing beforehand could be doing your DCs a disservice.

Thanks. Paisleyleaf feel I understand it better now, had a few concerns previously.

I think PIPS are to track progress so prepping them beforehand would be counter-productive and incredibly unhelpful for the school and you. They're used to track where the child is at at a give stage so they can chart that they're making the appopriate progress. They're so the school can benchmark and check they're doing their job. If you prepped them it would give an artifiical measure and then expectations would be set artifiically high.

Here's a link: www.cemcentre.org/RenderPage.asp?LinkID=22210000