Assessment for Special Schools

[PCEdutechltd]

HI all,

 

I have a special school (secondary) that is moving from Integris G2 to SIMS based on a demo, but when they have looked at assessment, its going to be a nightmare to use on a day to day basis for this module. Is anyone aware of any software available that can handle P-Scales, Levels and Pivot which is totally customisable. Also needs to be able to feed into SIMS.

 

Thanks in advance

[Banjo]

You can create aspects in sims that can collect P scales and subsets of P scales ie P3ii etc as well the old fashion levels 1c or 1c+ - these just need to be created once in a gradeset and you can add a points value (optional) against each grade so the marksheet can do some 'maths' in the background. Not used Pivots before.

 

In our LA most special schools use B2 - and pull students names out of SIMS.

[PCEdutechltd]

Thanks very much, I'll suggest the school have a look at B2.

 

The school have had a demo from a very reputable SIMS support provider, but the end result was that its not going to work for them. I believe the issue is that its not customisable enough.

[PhilNeal]

I'd be surprised if Assessment Manager isn't customisable enough - it might take a lot of effort to set it up in the first place.

[Esteban_Child_of_the_Sun]

Our special schools used to use CASPA but have now developed their own trackers in SIMS. You'd be better off asking other special schools who use SIMS to share a copy of their resources and work with your school to develop them further.

[Banjo]

Our special schools used to use CASPA but have now developed their own trackers in SIMS. You'd be better off asking other special schools who use SIMS to share a copy of their resources and work with your school to develop them further.

 

Yes - Caspa and B2 talk to each other. Collect the assessments in B2 and then graph them and benchmark (National captured data) in Caspa (from memory)