Which SIMS Aspects to use?

[Jahir]

Hi All,

 

I'm new to this forum and have found it really useful already.

I need to redesign all KS3 and KS4 marksheets in my school and I was wondering if I should use capita aspects or school created aspects for the subjects and what the pros/cons are for both. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

[PhilNeal]

Use Capita ones wherever possible which should be most of the time. If you do then all of the analysis will drop out with no mapping.

[Jahir]

Is there any reason or situations why I shouldn't use Capita aspects? I'm just wondering why schools decide to use their own aspects instead of the Capita ones.

[PhilNeal]

Some schools created their own Aspects before we created a standard set - they may have chosen to carry on using them.

Also there are 1000s of BTEC qualifications that we don't supply Aspects for and schools create Aspects for these. Finally a lot of schools have created their own assessment schemes with different grade descriptors etc. In these circumstances AM is flexible enough to support these schemes.

 

If at all possible though - use the Capita ones; it will save a lot of work.

[Jahir]

Thanks Phil, very useful info. So for subjects that there aren't any aspects for, eg NCFE Level 2 Crt in Food and Cookery, I create my own otherwise I use Capitas? Also, are there any Capita aspects for Predicted grades? I can only see actual and target.

 

Thanks

[PhilNeal]

Sorry @Jahir I don't know the answer to predicted grades. Capita's MyAccount has a forum dedicated to Assessment and you'd get an answer from a practitioner pretty quickly.