Monitoring and Evaluation System for Primary Pupils
Cito has developed a unique monitoring and evaluation system for primary pupils (aged 4-12). The system enables teachers to monitor their pupils’ development in a number of meaningful ways: in relation to both personal and peer development, at given moments and over time.
The complete system consists of a series of interrelated packages covering virtually all primary school subjects and including a wide range of assessment media and tools.
- paper-and-pencil and computer-based tests
- a comprehensive set of coherent tests covering reading comprehension, spelling, technical reading, listening and writing skills, vocabulary, math, social studies, and information processing
- a registration system based on a measuring technique that makes scores comparable on the same fixed scale over a period of time
- tools and procedures for identifying specific learning problems and remediation guidance
Concrete answers to real questions
The monitoring and evaluation system provides teachers and schools with answers to their concrete, everyday questions as: how much progress are the pupils making? Is it sufficient? Is progress stalled or deteriorating and if so, what can I do about it? Is what I do adequately geared to the level of the pupils? Which pupils need extra help and attention? Do I have to adjust or change my teaching methodology? Are there any parts of the existing educational programme in need of improvement?
In short, Cito’s monitoring and evaluation system helps teachers to determine if their pupils’ educational progress is satisfactory and if their own educational programme is working.
The system in action
The system offers assistance at every stage of the monitoring and evaluation process, providing a range of tools and guides for identification, analysis, and the development of action plans.
- Identification: recording pupils' achievements, processing and quantifying the results. Activities at this stage include test composition, test-giving, the marking of tests, and the registration and preliminary interpretation of results.
- Analysis: pupils' results are studied in more detail. An analysis is made of the mistakes made by the pupils. The monitoring and evaluation system offers teachers a set of tools to carry out this analysis. The data from the analysis stage are then used to draw up an educational action plan.
- Action: using information gleaned in stages one and two of the process (identification and analysis), the system provides tools for creating, implementing and evaluating an action plan. Such an action plan can suggest remedial measures and will provide both directions and exercise material.
Registration: simple, flexible and customisable
The tests that come with Cito’s monitoring and evaluation system can easily be processed and registered manually, but they also offer the help of a computer program. This Windows program is particularly useful in the identification and analysis stages of the system. The program generates products such as pupil reports, group surveys, answer surveys, analysis formulas and error analyses.
Computer-adaptive tests: student and teacher-friendly
The latest version of the monitoring and evaluation system offers a number of digital tests, which may also be computer-adaptive tests. Adaptive tests are computerised tests that automatically adapt to a pupil's level of ability. Adaptive testing has several advantages. For pupils, it means that testing time is shorter and the test is related to individual levels of ability; for the teacher it means a reduced workload, as all data can be analysed and registered by Cito.