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Overview of Assessments

Accessing the Assessment Tool

Section titled “Accessing the Assessment Tool”
  1. Open Jolly Classroom and go to your class dashboard
  2. Find the Assessments section
  3. Click Dashboard to open the Assessment Dashboard, or Start to begin an assessment straight away

The Assessments card on the dashboard

Assessment Dashboard

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The Assessment Dashboard gives you an overview of your class’s assessment results.

The Assessment Dashboard

  • Assessment selection: choose which assessment to view from the dropdown.
  • Start Assessment: begin a new assessment.
  • Send Home Practice: send practice to pupils based on their results.
  • Summary stats: how many pupils are assessed, on track, and at risk, plus the class average.
  • Class Distribution: Reading and Writing results across the class. Click More Trends to open Class Trends, or Class Overview to see results for every sound (see Class Overview).
  • Assessment Trends: class averages for each Reading and Writing category.
  • Extra Support: pupils who may need extra help, with filters to compare against previous scores.

To see a single pupil’s past results, open their page from the Pupils area (see Analysing Pupil Data).

Assessment Types

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Reading Assessments

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  • Purpose: Evaluate student reading skills and comprehension
  • Format: Interactive session with teacher guidance
  • Grading: Real-time scoring during assessment
  • Features: Audio playback, sentence marking, error tracking

Writing Assessments

Section titled “Writing Assessments”
  • Purpose: Assess spelling and writing abilities
  • Format: Teacher input of student results
  • Grading: Manual entry with automated scoring
  • Features: Teacher question preview, result import

Screening Assessments

Section titled “Screening Assessments”
  • Purpose: Run a Phonics Screening Check
  • Format: Past screening checks you can work through with a pupil
  • Availability: Shown on the Screening tab for phonics classes

Assessment Categories

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The assessment tool evaluates students across four main categories:

1. Letter Sounds

Section titled “1. Letter Sounds”
  • Focus: Phoneme recognition and pronunciation
  • Grading: Binary (Correct/Incorrect)
  • Assessment: Students identify letter sounds

2. Words

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  • Focus: Word reading and decoding skills
  • Grading: Binary (Correct/Incorrect)
  • Assessment: Students read individual words

3. Tricky Words

Section titled “3. Tricky Words”
  • Focus: Sight word recognition
  • Grading: Binary (Correct/Incorrect)
  • Assessment: Students read irregular words

4. Sentences

Section titled “4. Sentences”
  • Focus: Reading fluency and comprehension
  • Grading: Scale-based (0-20 points based on errors)
  • Assessment: Students read complete sentences
  • Error Types:
    • Reading errors
    • Self-corrections
    • Plausible spellings (writing only)