Unlocking consistency for MATs with assessment reports

This article shares how MAT leaders can easily use assessment reports in Boost Insights to unlock consistency across each school or centre.

Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) share resources, expertise, and ideas to create a group of well-performing schools. An “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mentality can cause MAT leaders challenges when implementing MAT-wide systems, like assessment processes. 

MAT-level insight reports enable MAT leaders to identify best practices from high-performing schools and implement them where needed, ensuring every school benefits from shared expertise and resources. 
 

How do MAT-level insight reports unlock consistency?

Accurate assessment data collated in easy-to-read and digestible formats help all schools to succeed in 5 main ways:

1.    Increasing learner achievement 
2.    Providing accurate assessment pictures
3.    Using the reports to support and evidence existing improvement plans 
4.    Ensuring a cohesive and collaborative process trust-wide
5.    Using the reports to create new improvement plans and drive future progress.

 

Increasing student achievement

MAT overview assessment reports play a pivotal role in boosting student achievement across all schools within a trust. With access to every school’s attainment data, MAT leaders can target specific areas for improvement, allowing them to allocate budget and resources more effectively, based on evidence.

Each school setting will have different working dynamics, teaching experience, and resources available. Access to school-specific data helps to identify the strengths and areas for development across each school, using tangible data to begin important school improvement conversations.  

Boost Insights offers reports at every level, including MAT-level overviews, school attainment summaries, group and class comparisons, question-level analysis and individual learners.

As a Trust, for many years LAAT have fully utilised the full scope of PiRA/PUMA and GaPS tests to help strengthen our teacher assessments in National Curriculum year groups. Our teachers are able to quickly use Boost Insights to identify gap analysis and ensure that they are working diagnostically to enable assessment to be a core driver in teaching and learning.

- Sam Eden, Director of Education, Lincolnshire Anglican Academy Trust

Accurate assessment picture

As a MAT leader, you’ll want precise and comprehensive snapshots of the progress of all schools in your trust. Boost Insights consolidates all school data into a single, cohesive dashboard, designed to give you and your leadership team a clear picture of how the school, year groups, and cohorts are performing across a range of different subjects. 

When you can analyse an accurate overview, the Trust can identify trends, such as areas of shared strength or common challenges. We know data is valuable, but only when context is also available. All attainment figures use fixed benchmarks to accurately compare against the UK’s national average, so you can reliable compare each of your schools. 

 

Reports to make the new plans

School assessments can create school improvement plans or confirm existing plans. 

As the MAT-level reports provide leaders with a clear understanding of progress trends, areas requiring development and areas of strength, they gain confidence to develop clear intent, implementation and impact plans. 

Reports that give a trust-wide perspective help identify schools or subjects that require targeted interventions and highlight successful practices that can be shared across the MAT. 

The granular insights from these reports allow for data-driven improvement plans tailored to each school's unique needs while aligning with broader trust objectives.

Assessment reports can influence strategic decisions related to: 

• Staff Continued Professional Development (CPD)
• Initial Teacher Training (ITT) placement 
• Teaching Assistant deployment 
• Peer mentoring systems

Boost Insights allows for purposeful number crunching. What’s more, our digital testing options eliminate the often-tedious marking process for teachers, giving them access to data they can work with immediately. 

 

Unlocking consistency

A summarised view of school performance highlights strengths, identifies shared challenges, and ensures that every school is working toward the same high standards. 

Assessment reports allow leaders to pinpoint best practices in high-performing schools and replicate them across the MAT, fostering collaboration and shared success. 

With these reports, MATs can create a cohesive strategy that uplifts all schools, ensuring every learner benefits from a consistent, high-quality education.

 

Reports to support the plans

MAT-level assessment reports are powerful allies in supporting and validating existing school improvement plans. These reports provide a trust-wide analysis that often confirms patterns or challenges already identified by individual schools, offering robust data to back up existing strategies. 

By aligning assessment outcomes with planned initiatives, MAT leaders and school staff can confidently consider whether their improvement efforts are on the right track.