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External Assessment Results 2016 - 2017        External Assessment Results 2016 - 2017






 InCAS  Year 6 May 2017

 Students in Year 3 and 6 also participated in the InCAS, a program developed at Durham   General Maths  Mental Maths  Reading  Spelling  Developed Ability
 University (UK).  Year 3 in September 6 and Year 6 at the end of the year (May 20176).    BHS %  ESF %  BHS %  ESF %  BHS %  ESF %  BHS %  ESF %  BHS %  ESF %

 The children undertook standardised tests in English, which included word recognition, word   >2 years
 decoding, reading comprehension and spelling, and in Mathematics, which included Mental   above
 Mathematics.  Chronological   24.7  22.1  29.2      22      14.9      21.2    43.8     34.4     36.0      53.1
              Age

 The InCAS tests give an age-related score.  The tests indicate how well the child achieved when   0-2 above

 compared with children of the same age.  For example, a child who performed at or above their   Chronological   53.9  53.6  46.1  51.9  78.2  64.4  49.4  50.8  38.2  39.3
              Age
 chronological age would be considered to be learning well. High scores were attained in the
 InCAS tests, as the following data show:  0-2 below

          Chronological   18      23.2     20.2     23.9      4.6     13.4      6.7      13.8     18.0     6.8
 Year 3 September 2016  Age

 General Maths  Mental Maths  Reading  Spelling  Developed Ability

 BHS %  ESF %  BHS %  ESF %  BHS %  ESF %  BHS %  ESF %  BHS %  ESF %  <2 years
             below
 >2 years   Chronological   3.4    1.0      4.5      2.3      2.3      1.0       0       1.0      7.9      0.9
 above        Age
 Chronological   17.2  15.4  10.3  18.6  43.2  43  44.8  42.2  34.8  33  Total
 Age      operating at

 0-2 above   or above CA  78.7    75.8     75.3     73.8      93.1    85.6     93.3     85.3     74.2     92.3
 Chronological   67.8  71.8  60.9  54.5  44.3  43.5  40.2  38.4  39.3  45.8
 Age



 0-2 below
 Chronological            Year 3 InCAS Results                                   Year 6 InCAS Results
 Age  14.9  12.7  25.3  23.1  12.5  12.4  15  18.2  18  16.5  100  120
             90                86  88                                                     96
                                                                   100
 <2 years    80                                                               81
 below       70                                                     80
 Chronological   0  0.1  3.5  3.9  0  1.1  0  1.2  7.9  4.7  60  47  Greater than 2 years           Greater than 2 years
                                                                                                    above chronological age
                                            above chronological age
 Age       % of students  50                                       % of students  60
 Total       40                             Above chronological age  40                             Above chronological age
             30
 operating at   85.1  87.2  71.2  73.1  87.5  86.5  85  80.6  74.1  78.9  20  19  25  16
 or above CA  10                                                    20

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