WHAT IS PIVATS?

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.la
  ncashire.gov.uk/pivats

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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

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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).

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• Dont
• play fast and loose
• with the performance indicators or you will end
  up
• in a pickle.

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INDIVIDUAL PUPIL PROFILE
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