Results of Y2 Sats

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Will parents be given the test scripts or marks or just expected / exceeding / working towards etc???

Probably because the tests can be used as one part of a range of evidence to back up teacher assessment.

They could have scrapped them years ago, but they can provide teachers with useful information. Although perhaps less so now they have to be administered in May.

That sound really weird, mrz. Sounds like nobody(children/school/teachers) have any benefit of yr2 sats!
So why are they keep wasting money on something like this? Very weird.

In theory it should support the teachers assessment but can be ignored if the teacher feels it doesn't reflect the child's actual ability.

*Probably because the tests can be used as one part of a range of evidence to back up teacher assessment.

They could have scrapped them years ago, but they can provide teachers with useful information.*

They don't match up to the assessment framework though. I've pointed this out elsewhere, but for the reading assessment we have to say whether a child can 'answer questions and make some inferences' in 'a familiar book that they can already read accurately and fluently.' I have no idea how a test in exam conditions, on a text that they have never seen previously, is supposed to help me make that judgement.

It might help me with my judgement for 'greater depth' ('make inferences... in a book they are reading independently) but then why do all children have to sit the same test? I know perfectly well which children are at or close to 'greater depth' so it would make more sense to only give them the test.

Presumably if you really wanted to see the test you could put in a freedom of information request. I would like to see DS' scores just out of curiosity (but school have already said they'll give them to us alongside the teacher assessment).

The Ofsted website used to show the KS1 percentages - as recently as 2014 I think.

But that was still only teacher assessment.

"Percentage of pupils who attained Level 2 or above in the Key Stage 1 reading assessment."
So, that was based just on the assessment of the teacher? Fair enough. I hadn't realised that. I wonder why they've stopped reporting all of this now? I thought parents were meant to be able to use it to help choose a good school? (results at DS's school are somewhat in the lower range, so we obviously didn't, but that's just us )

They can't report levels because they don't exist any more. Presumably, once they have decided what the scaled scores mean, they will be reporting TA assessment this year.

Seems a bit soon for them to have decided anything yet. It might make them look like they know what they are doing.

Ha!

Does anyone else find this thread really sad?

This x1000

And where is the poor child's parental involvement going to end?
Year 6 sats, secondary school internal exams, gcse's, A levels?
There's a bloody tough few years ahead for any parent getting this over invested in year 2 testing

The school puts completed tests in DD's book bag from time to time, and we see completed test papers at parents evening in their workbooks.

So I am just wondering if we will see the Sats ones, or because they are more formal, perhaps not.

The teacher told me she did very well in one paper and that makes me proud and I would like to see it.

I spent time with DD giving her exposure to practice questions so I am invested in her education, which I don't think is a bad thing.

I understand there is no formal testing in Y3 so I won't be asking to see anything next year.

I'm still invested in my dc education, op. One's just completed his pgce and the other one is going to uni later this year. I've never asked or expected at any stage to see their exam/test papers.
Carry on if you're happy to become that parent.
Is this a pfb by any chance?

Pfb with no siblings!

Pottery of course it is great to take an interest in your daighter's education. I think the key is to be supportive rather than hung up on it which is how it comes across. I think the teacher who said her daughter wasn't aware that she was sitting SATs is handling it perfectly. These scores are for teachers' use, the children don't need to be concerned with them surely? Let them be little and unconcerned with adult worries.
I remember walking home with my report age 5 feeling very worried because I got FAIR for attendance. In my anxiety I chewed the corner off the card.I didn't know what attendance menat but I knew FAIR was not VERY GOOD or EXCELLENT lol