Summative assessments

[Sarah_Church]

HI there,

I am reviewing my settings summative assessments and have found that a lot of staff in my 2-3 unit tend to assess children as achieving higher in the EYFS then they necessarily are. When looking at the observations that have led to these assessments sometimes there may only be one observation that has led tapestry to make this judgement - my question is this: How does tapestry decide when to move a child from one age bracket to the next? Does it depend on the amount of observations done in that area of learning/age bracket? It would be really useful to know this if anyone can help. 

 

Thanks

[OlayaTapestrySupport]

Hi Sarah,

Thank you for getting in touch with us!

There is not a certain number of observations needed to move a child up from say emerging to developing, this will just depend on the average. To explain how the average is calculated, each assessment that is made for that child, in a particular aspect, for a term, is assigned a number. The lowest assessment made will be assigned the number 1, then each age band/refinement between the lowest and highest number will be assigned a subsequent number. So let's say you have made four assessments for a child which are: 22-36 emerging, 30-50 emerging, 30-50 emerging, and 30-50 emerging. The assigned numbers would be as follows:

22-36E = 1

22-36D = 2

22-36S = 3

30-50E = 4

So, we have one assessment with the value of 1 (22-36E) and three assessments with the value of 4 (30-50E). To work out the average we would add up all of the assessment values, so 1+4+4+4 and divide this by the number of assessments, which is 4. This gives us a score of 3.25. We would then need to round the number to be whole, so this gives us a score of 3. We can then convert this back to an assessment value, and as shown above, 3 would equal 22-36 secure. Therefore this child's summative assessment, worked out as an average, would be 22-36 secure. 

I hope this helps

Best wishes,

Olaya