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Insights at your fingertips What is Boost Insights? Boost Insights is the online assessment and reporting platform that comes with Hachette Learning’s standardised assessments. Built with teachers, for teachers, we made sure the outcomes in Boost Insights provide actionable insights into your assessment data. Access is available for all staff members when you use assessments from Hachette Learning: Access Reading Tests, Access Mathematics Tests, the Basic Number Screening Test or the Salford Sentence Reading and Comprehension Test. How does it make identifying strengths and weaknesses easier? The ‘Question-level Analysis Report’ can be run for groups, classes or whole year groups, presenting each learner’s results for every question and strand in that test, as well your learners’ average score. The Group Report provides an easy summary of a group’s average strand performance, making it easy to spot the areas in which your learners excel and where the group average needs support. The Individual Learner Reports also break down the strand performance of each learner to isolate areas of strength and inform targeted teaching. ABOUT CHARLOTTE: Charlotte Clarke is Head of Product Management for Assessments at Hachette Learning What’s the difference? + Boost Insights’ reports are free with our assessments and generate instantly. + Sync Boost Insights with your chosen MIS to support whole-school data management. +We’re constantly gathering teacher feedback to ensure our platform meets your needs. 30 SECOND BRIEFING Boost Insights is Hachette Learning’s assessment data analysis platform, built to provide schools with valuable insights into their learners’ progress and attainment data. Put assessment at the heart of your teaching and make data-driven decisions. Q&A Charlotte Clarke, Head of Product Management, Assessment at Hachette Learning, discusses how Boost Insights reports simplify your assessment data Can I track progress? Yes, effortlessly! As long as you have results for at least two tests, the Learner Progress Report can compare overall performance, changes in standardised score and strand performance across multiple tests. These are really helpful to share at staff meetings and parents evenings. For larger groups or whole years, the Test Performance Comparison will calculate the difference between each learner’s performance on one test and the next, while the Group Average Review provides an at-a-glance summary of changes. What metrics does it use? A learner’s raw assessment score is used to generate their standardised score, age- standardised score and attainment age (e.g. reading age, maths age); these can be easily compared against their actual age in the Age Comparison Report. Access Reading and Mathematics Tests also use the Hodder Scale score – an additional independent measure which tracks small increments of progress across tests, regardless of the specific test or age of the learner. Contact: 01235 827 720 | education@hachette.co.uk | hachettelearning.com PA R T N E R C O N T E N T 59 teachwire.net/secondary