Bedrock Learning Reading Test vs. NGRT PDF

ASSESSING READING How does Bedrock Learning’s reading test compare with NGRT?  Bedrock Learning vs. NGRT 1 Assessing reading Assessment is generally a fraught area of education. There is a lot of anxiety that comes with ass...

ASSESSING READING How does Bedrock Learning’s reading test compare with NGRT?  Bedrock Learning vs. NGRT 1 Assessing reading Assessment is generally a fraught area of education. There is a lot of anxiety that comes with assessment and often those anxieties can have a real impact on a learner’s One test. Multiple sub- performance within that test. But we also know that skills tested. assessment is a crucial part of education. Schools need Reading isn’t a single skill. reliable and insightful assessment data to inform Bedrock’s range of text types is curriculum design as well as their teaching and learning aligned to the national practice - but in a way that is also supportive to learners. curriculum, with subskills and text types targeted at different Schools are really rich in data, but the challenge is what do ages and abilities. Learners you do with all that data? It has to be actionable and it will see texts of the must be ready to use in a way that is easy, saves you time appropriate difficulty and and makes sense for your classroom practice or for genre for them. informing interventions. Bedrock Learning was originally designed to address language growth and teach children the very language they need to access the curriculum. With Bedrock’s reading test, we're now able to assess the impact of that curriculum on reading comprehension. That is a real challenge for schools. They need those data points to Maximum data. show which children are struggling with reading Minimum time. comprehension and therefore struggling to access the Bedrock’s reading test adapts curriculum. They can see what their intervention should to fit each learner via our look like in terms of the subskills they should be working adaptive algorithm, on, in terms of the specific areas of language, automatically adapting comprehension and reading assessment children are questions based on each struggling with. learner’s responses. This provides you with maximum data about your learners in as For schools, it’s vital to have an accurate picture of the short a time as possible. reading ability of each child. That is not just for secondary English teachers. That's for every single subject teacher across the school. When we teach, we often use very language-rich texts that are sometimes difficult to comprehend. If you’re a history teacher, or perhaps you're introducing a geographical topic in primary, it’s vital to have up-to-date and reliable data on the reading strengths and weaknesses of the children in front of you. Test results to have As a teacher myself, I know that having that data at my confidence in. fingertips would have been hugely empowering. I'm so Bedrock’s test was developed excited to be able to offer this to the Bedrock teachers in and standardised with a our community. sample of over 11,000 students, nationally representative across gender and FSM Olivia Sumpter QTS, BA, PGCE, Mteach percentages, broadly aligned with national proportions for Director of Education, students at across Key Stage 1 Bedrock Learning to Key Stage 4. ”  Bedrock Learning vs. NGRT 2 New Group Reading Test (based on most recent EEF evaluation) Age range 6-16 years 6-16 years Key stages Suitable for Key Stages 1-4 Suitable for Key Stages 1-4 Digital only, available via Bedrock platform. The Digital and paper versions. test is fully adaptive, drawing on a large bank of Digital version is adaptive and comprised of items and so does not rely on fixed test forms, Format three fixed tests for use during the year. Digital eliminating security issues such as students version recommended for ages having seen a test form before, or being able to 7-16 only. see the screen of students around them. Fully flexible. Tests can be defined at individual, class, year, school or MAT level (or any Group size Whole class only combination thereof). No minimum number of tests that can be bought or activated at any one time. Single test assessing multiple reading subskills. Single test comprised of several parts: phonics, Assessed subskills are: sentence completion and passage Explicit retrieval comprehension. Implicit retrieval Meaning in context Subskills reported are: Predictions Retrieval Evidencing ideas Subskills Simple inference Summary Context comprehension Intra / intertextuality Inference and deduction Writer’s purposes and viewpoints These subskills are aligned with the SATs KS1 Writer’s use of language and KS2 content domains, and extended into Organisation of texts KS3 and KS4 to align with the Nat. Curriculum Social, cultural and historical traditions and selected exam board specifications. Standard age scores (60 - 140) Standard age scores (60 - 140) Stanine scores (1-9) Stanine scores (1-9) Range of National percentile ranks (0-100) National percentile ranks (0-100) scores Group rank (dependent on group size) Group rank (dependent on group size) assessed Reading ages Reading ages Responses broken down by subskill. Responses broken down by subskill. Untimed, variable between students. Untimed, variable between students. Duration 40 minutes recommended, including Approximately 40 minutes to complete the test. introduction and administration (digital test). Semi-adaptive (digital version only). Adaptivity at test section level, with students taking a series Adaptivity of linear test questions covering sentence Fully adaptive at each question level. completion, phonics and comprehension. Assessor (Digital test only) Scoring is automatic following Scoring is automatic and results data is requirements submission to Testwise. available immediately. Disclaimer: This document is based on the Education Endowment Fund (EEF’s) most recent analysis of the NGRT in 2017. Changes have been made to the NGRT since this review was carried out and all efforts have been made to include all known updates in this comparison. Being a newer resource, the Bedrock Reading Test has not yet been evaluated by the EEF.  Bedrock Learning vs. NGRT 3 New Group Reading Test (based on product available in Sept ’23) Ease of use One-click setup for teachers Time consuming setup with access code-based One-click entry for learners system to assign tests to learners. SSO access available No mid-test monitoring for teachers. Live dashboard gives real-time view to teachers on where each learner is in their test. Speed of results Delay between tests being taken and results Test results available immediately. data being available. National curriculum- Assessed items and text passages are not These subskills are aligned with the SATs KS1 aligned curriculum aligned. EEF reported that an over- and KS2 content domains and extended into reliance on multiple choice questions KS3 and KS4 to align with the Nat. Curriculum compromised test validity. and selected exam board specifications. Budget- saving Test tokens cannot be voided/reused once Test tokens can be voided if the student was assigned to a test and replacement tokens cheating, disengaged or an incorrect test was must be used/purchased. assigned in error etc. Familiarity Tests are taken in the same student-friendly interface as Bedrock’s learning content, already Unfamiliar interface for learners used by and familiar to thousands of learners globally Test data based on UK learners Desktop and mobile compatible Norm referenced scores Age bands used for 1 month 1 month norming  Scan to watch Bedrock’s reading test in action 5