This tutorial will take you through setting up the KS1 and KS2 assessment frameworks on Tapestry. These frameworks can be adapted to suit your own school’s requirements, and therefore it’s important to read through this tutorial to ensure that these frameworks are set up in the best way for you.
Only manager staff users will be able to set this up from the browser version of Tapestry.
Enabling the Key Stage assessment frameworks
The first thing you’ll need to do is enable the relevant assessment frameworks on your account. To do this, a manager will need to navigate to the Configuration menu, and then select Assessments.
Once you’ve navigated to the Assessments section, you’ll need to scroll down to the section titled Key Stage and then select Configure.
From here you can choose which years you would like to enable, and also choose whether you would like to display the assessment framework to relatives. Displaying assessments to relatives means that they will be able to see the assessments you’ve made for their children (within published observations), but they will not be able to make any assessments themselves.
Scrolling down further will reveal the option to customise tiers…
Customising tiers
Next, you can customise the tiers for the framework.
It is important to set up your tiers up at the beginning of the academic year as once you have made an assessment for the year you will not be able to remove any tiers. You can add more, but if you do you might need to adjust your previous made assessment scores to reflect this change.
You can assess each statement selected for a child using these tiers, and can choose to have between 3 and 5 tiers. Tier 1 should always be the lowest level, and you can give your tiers the names that suit best. Each tier will also need a short name (4 letters or less) for use in charts. However, do remember that the tiers need to stay in their hierarchy – if you rename tier 2 to ‘mastery’ and tier 4 to ‘developing’, your results will be very confusing!
When setting up your tiers you might want to consider how children at your school do in comparison to the national ‘expectation’ bearing in mind that children with a scaled score of 100+ at the end of KS1 have reached the expected standard.
So, if you look back at the last couple of years’ results for your KS1 pupils, what proportion of children achieved the 100+ scaled score? If most did with a roughly equal number of children above or below the 100+ score then you should set your national expectation tier as Tier 3. This gives you Tiers 1 and 2 to show progress up to the expected standard and Tiers 4 and 5 to show progress beyond the expected standard.
If few children achieved the 100+ scaled score and the majority achieved below this you should set your national expectation tier as Tier 4, this will give you Tiers 1,2 and 3 to show progress and the impact of intervention up to the national expectation.
If most children achieved the 100+ scaled score, with very few below, you should set your national expectation as Tier 2. This will give your Tiers 3, 4, and 5 to show progress beyond the national expectation.
Be sure to scroll down and select Submit to save any changes you make here, and remember that tier names and colours will apply to subsequent academic years unless they are changed again.
That concludes this tutorial! You can now set up KS1 and KS assessments on Tapestry! Next, we’d recommend reading our tutorial on creating and editing groups, as this makes assessing children easier.