21/8/2008

Ref: PP004

Schools across the country can now achieve consistent teacher assessment across the entire Key Stage 2 and 3 QCA Making Good Progress and Assessing Pupil Progress (APP) schemes with Classroom Monitor (stand SW114), the award-winning interactive markbook from Prime Principle Ltd. Enabling teachers to keep all their assessment and reports across every subject in one easy to manage location, accessible anytime, anywhere, Classroom Monitor (www.classroommonitor.co.uk) also helps schools ensure the smooth transition of pupils from primary to secondary school. Visitors to Classroom Monitor’s stand during the show can also enter a competition for the chance to win a year’s free site licence and a case of wine to celebrate with!

Already used by over 1000 UK primary schools for KS1 and 2 assessments, Classroom Monitor is quick and simple to use and compatible with every school’s Management Information System (MIS). Designed to work like a paper marksheet, the online software lists objectives from the National Curriculum, numeracy and literacy strategies Primary Frameworks or Foundation Stage Profile, against pupils in a class or set.

Helping schools motivate children to achieve more every day in class, the Making Good Progress scheme sees greater emphasis on teachers’ judgement of their pupils’ progression. This includes the introduction of the single-level test to confirm this judgement. By capturing pupil assessment data day-by-day, Classroom Monitor enables teachers to easily identify when pupils are ready to take their single-level test.

Classroom Monitor can also help teachers improve their Assessment for Learning (AfL) and Assessing Pupil Progress (APP) practice in the classroom. A key aim of the AfL is to provide pupils with further work and targets which they can action – Classroom Monitor can provide this simply, concisely based on a pupil’s ongoing assessment.

A highly visual and simple ‘traffic light’ system is used to input assessment information. ‘Red’ represents an objective to target, ‘amber’ for almost met and ‘green’ when a pupil meets a target. Using information compiled from assessments over a year; teachers can add comments, personalise text and use a statement bank linked to lesson topics. This process allows teachers to link their ongoing records into reporting ensuring report writing is both highly personal and less time consuming than other methods.

Classroom Monitor displays assessment results in simple, easy to interpret graphs, spreadsheets, and target-setting documents which are fed directly into lesson planning and teaching. These can then be shared with parents, pupils, governors and Ofsted.
Chris Scarth, Commercial Director at Prime Principle, commented: “If the Government is to truly improve the quality and reliability of teacher assessment, schools need to provide teachers with a consistent and easy way to keep track of their pupils’ progression. Using Classroom Monitor, teachers and senior management alike have this information at their fingertips 24/7 so issues can be quickly identified and teaching fine tuned to each and every pupil’s ability.”

Classroom Monitor costs on average £600.00 per year for a site licence including technical support and updates. For further information or a demonstration of the product in your school, please contact Chris Scarth, Commercial Director at Prime Principle on Tel: 0844 5555 211, e-mail: cscarth@primeprinciple.co.uk or visit the website at www.classroommonitor.co.uk.

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