Tracking attainment in the BGE at Wallace Hall Wallace Hall – Together we grow, learn and achieve.

Tracking attainment in the BGE at Wallace Hall The journey….. What was our original plan? How did we implement our plan? What went well? What did we improve? What are the future development needs? Wallace Hall – Together we grow, learn and achieve.

What was our original plan? (February 2015) A system to track pupil attainment through the BGE Focus on progress of individual learners. Encourages moderation across the school. Three Quality Assurance Moderation Support Officer (QAMSO) representatives. Departments to create more detailed comments to assist with consistency within departments. Easy to understand. Each department provides tracking data for each pupil twice per year. Focus on moderation within subject areas. Pilot with S1 in 2015/16. Engage with staff throughout. Created a whole BGE structure from 1-9 (similar to the grading system in the senior phase) and departments identified what these criteria would look like based on their individual subject SAoL/benchmarks. 1 would be highest achieving (top of Level 4) and a 9 would be lowest achieving (bottom of Level 2). Wallace Hall – Together we grow, learn and achieve.

What was our original plan? (February 2015) Spreadsheet based system to enter and collate data. Easy to collect data. All curricular areas represented. Easy to analyse data for individual pupils to track progress. Easy to analyse data for departments to track moderation. System tracks progress in attainment rather than focussing on overall attainment which allows for individual pupils’ progress to be tracked regardless of overall ability. “If a student keeps on getting a C, then she is likely to come to think of herself as a C student. If the student keeps on making progress, the student is more likely to believe that intelligence is malleable – by working, you’re getting smarter.” Daisy Christodoulou Making Good Progress – the future of Assessment for Learning Oxford University press, page 6 Forward by Dylan Wiliam Wallace Hall – Together we grow, learn and achieve.

Wallace Hall – Together we grow, learn and achieve. What went well? (December 2015) Staff found system easy to use. Grading system of 1-9 intuitive for staff. Encouraged moderation within curricular areas. Identified progress made by individual learners. (May 2016) Wallace Hall – Together we grow, learn and achieve.

Wallace Hall – Together we grow, learn and achieve. What did we improve? (2016) Fed back to staff to assist with cross faculty moderation. (January 2016 and June 2016) Engaged with Wallace Hall Primary to see if a similar system could work there (1-9 would cover CfE Levels 2, 1 and 0). (May 2016) SMT or PTPS met with learners not making expected levels of progress to agree strategies for improvement. (January 2017) Analysis of learners with respect to PEF, ASfL and SIMD. (May 2017) System allows leaders to analyse data to see which departments are over-estimating or under-estimating pupil attainment to assist with moderation across the school. Wallace Hall – Together we grow, learn and achieve.

Wallace Hall – Together we grow, learn and achieve. What are the future development needs? (2018) Include S3 in tracking. (December 2017) Include literacy and numeracy tracking for S1. (May 2018) Include Wallace Hall Primary in tracking. (2018) Continue to encourage moderation within and beyond faculties. A similar system should be possible in the primary where a grading system of 1-9 should cover Levels 2, 1 and early Level. Wallace Hall – Together we grow, learn and achieve.