Schools can now benefit from a new online assessment product for Key Stage 2 reading and maths, which is designed to help teachers save time and engage pupils effectively.
New interactive online assessments tool aims to support Key Stage 2 pupils’ reading and maths progress
Monday 2 September 2024
NFER Online Assessments (NOA) provide interactive, standardised tests that are fun and appealing for pupils to use. This platform also delivers reliable information to teachers for diagnostic and summative assessment purposes.
Pupils will engage with age-appropriate questions and NFER’s friendly interactive guide, NOA the Panda, will be there to guide them during introductory videos.
Seventy per cent of all NOA questions are marked automatically, saving teachers valuable time. The remaining 30 per cent are marked by teachers to ensure there is teacher-level insight into ‘open-ended' and ‘show your working’ questions.
NOA also has an easy-to-use, in-built reporting tool which teachers and school leaders can use to monitor pupil and class-level attainment across specific curriculum areas such as addition and subtraction for maths or making inferences from texts for reading.
Covering reading and maths curricula across autumn, spring, and summer terms, NOA has been standardised using over 30,000 completed assessments to provide an accurate sample size for data and reporting purposes.
One primary school involved in the trial of NOA earlier this year commented: “It was a very efficient system and easy to use. Children were able to work independently. The data produced was useful and effective. We were very impressed.”
Claire Hodgson, eAssessment Programme Director at NFER, said:
“We’re very excited to see NOA being used in schools from this autumn. Our high quality, interactive suite of standardised reading and maths tests can be used termly to monitor learners’ progress. We are confident that through our assessment expertise and robust trialling, we have created a user-friendly system with engaging questions that are appropriate for curriculum-wide coverage.
“We are proud that NOA maximises the advantages of online assessment at the same time as minimising administrative and marking burden for teachers. The auto-scored questions provide instant data, while the small proportion of teacher-marked questions offer valuable insight about each learner. The reports provide detailed and useful analyses of learners’ performance, supporting identification of strengths and areas for development.”
NFER’s Years 5 and 6 NOA offering will launch in autumn 2025 following the collection of trials data for the autumn, spring, and summer assessments which will take place during the 2024-2025 academic year.