What is a YesAssessment?
Our assessments do not brand students as failures or successes; rather they place them on a journey of success. Motivation, progression and improvement are our watchwords.
Our assessments measure improvements in 'soft' skills, dispositions, attitudes, attributes and character.
Why you need to assess
The Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills framework is the tool the government has given schools to develop independent, creative learners. QCA, Ofsted and other agencies are promoting the need for skills, competencies and dispositions to be taught and assessed explicitly in schools. Done badly, or without careful thought the results can be disastrous.
Personal, learning and thinking skills
Do you know how successfully your students are acquiring their Personal, Learning and Thinking skills?
Are they more becoming more creative? Better at independent learning and enquiry? Self managing more effectively? Becoming better team workers? Becoming more reflective learners? Becoming more effective participators?
Intuition is notoriously unreliable and inefficient yet it tends to be the way most teachers operate. We say, "Don't just guess it, YesAssess it!".
Self, peer and teacher assessment
A yesassessment works through collating observations. Using Self, Peer and Teacher assessment, then, using mathematical approaches to alleviate bias and to moderate, we can track progression in any skills or dispositions you wish.
In the past this was just a gut feeling - now you can track it, come up with figures to prove what is working, with whom and to what extent. Then you can use this information to target areas for improvement.
Raising standards
Designed for the assessment of Personal Learning and Thinking Skills, The SEAL programme, Every Child Matters, Curriculum Aims, Cross curriculum dimensions, competencies, attitudes and attributes.
Qualitative, quantitative, a YesAssessment identifies trends and can help set clear goals for improvement.