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WHAT IS PIVATS?
• A school-based assessment instrument based on the performance criteria published by the DfES and QCA known as the P scales and National Curriculum Level descriptors
• A system to inform target setting for pupils of all ages whose performance is outside national expectations
WHAT IS PIVATS?
• A system to complement and work alongside statutory assessment for children working from level P1 to L4
• An approach that may be used annually, as a baseline assessment or as a yearly measurement of added value
BENEFITS OF USING PIVATS
• Celebrate the attainment of pupils whose performance is not always recognized and valued
• Help schools demonstrate the value they add to pupils of all abilities
• Support schools in their self-evaluation processes
WHO IS PIVATS FOR?
• Pupils who attend mainstream primary or secondary or special schools, short stay schools, learning support units or resourced provision.
• Pupils who may be out of school as a result of exclusion, medical needs or school phobia.
WHAT DOES PIVATS DO?• It supports inclusion
• It promotes value-added measurement
• It promotes school self-evaluation and improvement
• It develops individual, cohort, subject and year group profiles of performance for monitoring, comparative and target-setting purposes
Data Analysis through the PIVATS web-site
• There are two PIVATS web-sites
• General information about PIVATS: http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/education/pivats
• PIVATS data analysis service: https://lccsecure.lancashire.gov.uk/pivats
PIVATS STRUCTURE
• SCIENCE [P1(i) to P8 and levels 1 to 4]– scientific enquiry
– life processes and living things
– materials and their properties
– physical processes
To do an assessment
• “best fit” the sample of work to the National Curriculum Level
• Look for which of the performance indicators can be evidenced
• Score as Level then letter (‘e’ = 1 indicator and ‘a’ = 5 indicators).
• Information for various aspects should be entered on Individual Pupil Profile (IPP).
• Don’t
• “play fast and loose” • with the performance indicators or
you will end up
• “in a pickle.”
Name: Bernard CORNFORD
PIVATS elements
Number ofPIVATS
performanceindicatorsachieved
within a leveldescriptor:
PIVATSlevel
PIVATS score
Speaking and Listening – Comprehension 1Ae 31
Speaking and Listening – Expression 1Be 26
Reading 2Cb 41
Writing 1Ab 34
Using and applying mathematics 1Aa 35
Number 1Bb 29
Shape, space and measures 2Ce 36.5
Scientific enquiry 1Ac 33
Life processes and living things 1Ae 31
Materials and their properties 1Ae 31
Physical processes 1Ad 32
Interacting and working with others PSD11d 32
Independent and organisational skills PSD10d 27
Attention PSD9b 24
INDIVIDUAL PUPIL PROFILE
PIVATS INDIVIDUAL PUPIL PROFILE REPORT
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
PIV
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20/05/00
16/05/01
19/05/02