Assessing progress through baseline assessments

This live session, facilitated by Natspec, will cover how we assess progress and achievement through baseline assessing, it will identify resources and strategies to support delivery, reflecting on current practice and learning from Natspec colleagues.

Who is this for?

This session is for anyone working with SEND learners in the FE and Skills Sector or who are developing their study programmes for this cohort of learners and want to further their knowledge and understanding of how to monitor and record progress and achievement through baseline assessments.

Training aim

This training is intended to provide information to further education colleges who are interested and realise the importance of baseline assessments. 

What do we mean?  

We will look at how we monitor the effectiveness of our baseline assessments and how we reflect on our own practice and continuously develop and improve strategies.   

Where to start   

We will start with identifying what an effective Baseline assessment looks like. 

Benefits and barriers  

We will explore the benefits of using effective assessments and timely reviews to ensure your learners can achieve and evidence their distance travelled from a recognised staring point. 

We will consider the potential barriers to trying something new and not just sticking to tried and trusted methods.  

What is key to effective baseline assessments 

We will explore how knowing your learners and assessing their starting points to evidence their learning journey is key to delivering effective teaching and learning.  

Preparing for Adulthood and RARPA  

We will link to the Preparing for Adulthood Agenda (PFA) and RARPA and how this can be used to inform effective teaching and learning.  

Practitioners’ perspective  

One of our Natspec colleague’s will share their practice, experience and challenged with baseline assessing. 

We will hear from another Natspec colleague who has different assessment methods to enable you to have a broad knowledge of baseline assessment and discover what resources will be best for your provision.  

Outcomes

You will have the knowledge and confidence to:   

• explore what is required to inform your curriculum before you plan appropriate assessments
• identify the benefits and potential barriers to baseline assessing 
• try through supported experiments and bring new ideas to your recording of learner progress and achievement 
• ensure you can monitor your learners’ journey and their distance travelled from their starting points and evidence how effective it has been for your learners 
• recognise how you can incorporate preparing for adulthood and RARPA in your assessing to have greater impact on your learners  
• learn from current providers on baseline assessments  

Book

Please book your free place on the Education and Training Foundation’s online booking system.