Personalised Assessments
Personalised Assessments
Personalised assessments are statutory for learners in Years 2 to 9 in maintained schools in Wales. The assessments for Numeracy (Procedural), Numeracy (Reasoning) and Reading are available throughout the year for schools to use to support learners to make progress.
The purpose of these assessments is to find out children’s strengths and areas for improvement so that their teachers can help them develop their skills.
After your child has completed a personalised assessment, our teachers can see feedback on their skills and progress which helps us plan the next steps for your child’s learning.
Personalised assessments are taken on-line and are adaptive, meaning that questions are selected based on the responses to previous questions. This provides a tailored assessment experience for each learner and will help all learners develop their skills through understanding what they can do, the things they may need to work on, and their next steps.
An example of these assessments can be found here:
Year 2 & 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs-zVN3JYuQ
Y 4, 5 & 6:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5InfsSPQUpM
To allow children to become familiar with these online assessments, we allow time for children to take part in familiarisation tests. As these tests are online and adaptive depending on the learner, we do not have practice papers that are exactly like the assessments that our learners will be taking this year. However, please find below past papers of the Welsh Government National Tests before they became adaptive and online.