Pupil assessment

Set expectations, plan, assess, track progress.

Curriculum planning, attainment assessment, progress tracking for cohorts, individualised objective targeting, … the daily load for teachers is considerable.EARWIG is designed to make all this easier and more intuitive.

Multiple frameworks in different formats can be unwieldy but Earwig makes things easier by allowing you to assess and track all this information simply in one place, using one approach. Unlike other assessment products, EARWIG allows you to choose the methods that work for you and the learners in your setting....

Whatever your pupil assessment strategy, Earwig Assessment will help you to do it better.

How will this package help with assessment?

Curriculum planning, attainment assessment, progress tracking for pupils and cohorts, individualised objectives. setting expectations, annual reviews, analysing performance across years… All this consumes teacher energy, adds stress and reduces face time with pupils.

Earwig makes all this easier, faster and, above all, better.

Multiple frameworks in different formats can be unwieldy but Earwig allows you to assess and track all this information simply in one place and using one approach. Unlike other assessment products, the software allows you to choose the methods that work for you and the learners in your setting

What does it do?

It allows teachers to Record curriculum attainment in pre-configured or bespoke gradations.
Calculates working levels based on agreed criteria.
Set, monitor and evolve individual learning targets based on EHCPs, or anything else.
Illustrate real-life events which may have an impact on learner development.
Baseline prior achievement.Identify and promulgate next steps for individual pupils.
Set expectations, individually or in groups.
Track progress across terms or cycles. 
Spot gaps.

Who can benefit from it?

The range and variety of packages, settings, support levels means that Earwig works equally well for a small PRU providing limited support in a mainstream setting or a large all-through special school.

Teachers are not the only ones who become more effective and relaxed.  The tools make TAs much more productive and the SLT will find that the reporting and analytics make managing performance across the school easier and tighter.

How does Earwig improve pupil assessment and tracking?

Curriculum assessment

With Earwig, you can assess pupils as you create the evidence, individually,  or a class at a time.Whether you are tracking statutory frameworks, commercial products for which you are already licensed, or your own bespoke KPIs, Earwig will load up your assessment criteria and you are ready to go.

The custom grading feature allows your setting to assess the incremental small steps of progress that are so very important to learners and to illustrate the positive impact your staff are having.

Individualised targets

All SEND children now have their learning, at least partly based on their own specific EHCP targets. This presents added workload for schools that don’t use Earwig.  Ask for a demo to see how Earwig assessment enables teachers to deal with this in the same way as they do with conventional progress measures. But these are editable.

The bespoke nature of these frameworks means that they can be easily updated and provide settings to focus on the important aspects of learner development.

This makes it easy to evolve the targets with the local authority or other professionals, at annual reviews or any other time and produce detailed and structured reports with a couple of clicks.

Clear, informative tracking

The Earwig progress scoring system enables you to see progress over any terms or other cycles, high granularity means you can show progress, even when it is slow.

Baseline pupils at any time and measure progress from these.  Set expectations by group or individually for any subject or topic. Automatically forecast yearend based on past performance.

Maximum information, minimum work.

Find the right balance of assessment frameworks across your school

Special schools deal with a wide range of abilities  - and disabilities.  So you probably need a suite of different assessment mechanisms to be able to fully assess each pupil. Most schools use a combination of statutory, third party and their own. Earwig client schools have helped us to assemble more than 300 for you to choose from, including all the usual commercially available schemes. With these, you can take them as they are or mix and match segments - or just allow us to load the one you have developed in-house.

In the library, you can open up each one, drill down to any level, and see exactly how it would look if you had an Earwig account.
Check out the Earwig Framework Library