What is a YesAssessment?
Our assessments do not brand students as failures or successes; rather they place them on a journey of success. Motivation, progression and improvement are our watchwords.
Our assessments measure improvements in 'soft' skills, dispositions, attitudes, attributes and character.
Why you need to assess
The Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills framework is the tool the government has given schools to develop independent, creative learners. QCA, Ofsted and other agencies are promoting the need for skills, competencies and dispositions to be taught and assessed explicitly in schools. Done badly, or without careful thought the results can be disastrous.
What we do
Positive assessments
- Our assessments do not brand students as failures or successes; rather they place them on a journey of success. Motivation, progression and improvement are our watchwords.
Learning skills
- Our assessments measure improvements in 'soft' skills, dispositions, attitudes, attributes and character.
- By using periodic formative assessment, a YesAssessment brings together a range of judgements from the student, their peers and their teachers into a snapshot at a given time.
- When put together with other periodic YesAssessments a picture of progress and targets emerges allowing students to demystify the learning process and have, for the first time, a fuller picture on how they can improve both independently and interdependently.
- The judgements are based on descriptors from our Master Learner™ programme. The programme works in much the same way as belts in some martial arts. e.g. - you are a white belt, but you know you can be a black belt, you know how to become a black belt, you know it involves a lot of effort, you are motivated intrinsically to achieve.
- Our assessment tools allow a student to see their learning journey and feel ownership and power over their progression. Assessment for Learning is at the centre of our philosophy.
About us
The team behind YesAssess can boast individuals with:
- 18 years of extremely successful experience in the teaching and assessment in the secondary sector of soft skills such as: creativity, team working, effective participation, risk taking, communication, performance, confidence etc;
- A track record in handling pupil and staff opinions, having collated over 5 million school survey responses;
- Experience of working inside the DCSF.