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“I found Level Tracker for ICT was ideal for accurately levelling the pupils at the start of year 7 and
enabling me to measure their progress through the school. We have a limited amount of time for
ongoing assessment so Level Tracker for ICT was a fast, accurate solution to our needs.”
Leon Oxenham, Director of ICT, The Latymer School

Level Tracker for ICT is the on-screen assessment from the EP schools portfolio that
automates and simplifies your formative assessment requirements across the
Key Stage 3 ICT framework of study.

Level Tracker for ICT offers a host of benefits:

1 Accurately identifies Level on entry

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2 Formative assesment to support teaching and

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Adapt your teaching approach to meet your pupils’ learning

requirements and achieve better results by using the
comprehensive reporting options.

3 Tracks progress
Level Tracker for ICT enables you to track individual pupil
progress against the DCSF Level 5 target by the end of Year 9.
It also identifies each pupil’s strengths and weaknesses and
provides specific learning goals to improve performance.

4 Provides an audit trail for OfSTED

5 E-assessment to save you time

All assessments are delivered electronically,
taken on-screen and marked automatically so you don’t
have to prepare or mark questions.

6 Simple to implement
Level Tracker for ICT is designed to be integrated into any
teaching plan. Online delivery enables you to get up and
running quickly so you won’t have to rely on your network
manager to set up any software.

Tel: 0845 672 0009 www.thirdforce.com

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continuous assessments
Level Tracker for ICT is deployed in a management system with all pupil records stored
in a central database. A built-in reporting tool enables you to query the database and
generate reports that provide data on individual pupil progress, whole class progress
and entire years.

IndividualPupilReports

Pupil summary report Comparsion report

This report provides data on each assessment
taken and the National Curriculum level achieved.
It also provides an overview of an individual
pupil’s learning achievement throughout Key
Stage 3. The data is displayed in graphical and
text format.
This report gives you the ability to clearly and
easily compare the progress of pupils, classes and
years across the entire Key Stage 3 cohort. This
enables you to identify any performance concerns
with adequate time to address them.

Class Reports

Class average report Class aggregate report

This report shows the average class score for each
unit assessment. The data is displayed in graphical
and text format.
This report breaks down the class achievement
for each assessment and shows the spread of
achievement across the assessment, for example, in
the screen shot above 35% of the pupils in the class
achieved level 5c in unit 7.5.

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 The Management System enables you
The management system gives you comprehensive tools that enable you to organise
and administer your pupils effectively and to report on their progress. A user-friendly
interface enables you to navigate and carry out analysis with ease. There are four
simple steps to using the management system.

Set up classes
You can set up classes to reflect the
organisational structure of your school.

Classes are important because they

enable you to organise your pupils
logically.

Register pupils
You can bulk create users by importing
existing pupil data from your school’s
management system (eg SIMS). The
user data fields include first name,
surname, username, password and
date of birth. There are two free text
fields and another field to store learning
considerations.

Level Tracker for ICT includes:

» The Administration Guide, which
provides detailed information on how
to set up and start using Level Tracker
for ICT quickly.

» The Teachers’ Implementation Guide,

which provides information on how
the product has been developed from
a pedagogical perspective and the
different types of assessments and
question types used.

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to track progress from your desktop

Assign assessments
Assigning assessments is simple and
flexible. You can assign an assessment
to a whole class in two clicks. You
can choose one of three assessment
durations (30, 40 or 50 minutes) to suit
the length of your ICT lesson.

Report on progress
The reports provide detailed information on pupil progress down to levels and
sub-levels (selectable by the teacher). You can enter your own comments and
your assessment of a pupil’s level in the two free text fields in the reporting facility.
This enables you to use your knowledge of a pupil’s classroom performance and
other factors to refine the results produced by Level Tracker for ICT. An easy to use
export tool enables you to export the data in the reports in .csv format.

Online delivery
Level Tracker for ICT is delivered as a hosted service, which means both the tests and management
system can be accessed from any computer with a suitable Internet connection.

Start up Service
We offer you the benefits of our Start up Service, where we setup your classes and pupils for you. All
you need to do is send us a list of your pupils and we’ll create all of their accounts and supply you with
a list of usernames and passwords that you can distribute.

Benefits:
Saves you time, because we manage it for you
» You don’t have to install Level Tracker for ICT software—it’s all done for you.
» You can get up and running quickly.
» You don’t have to worry about backing up any data, because we do it for you every day.

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level and application of knowledge
Level Tracker for ICT is a valid, accurate and reliable assessment that is designed to
accurately measure your pupils’ competence and application of knowledge.
It consists of three different types of assessments:
• Start of Year 7 diagnostic assessment
• End of unit assessment for all 15 units in the Key Stage 3 framework across
years 7, 8 and 9
• End of Year 9 revision test for the QCA on-screen test for Key Stage 3 ICT

Assessment structure
Diagnostic assessment
An adaptive testing model is used for the diagnostic
assessment. Pupils are assigned questions based on how
they have answered earlier ones, for example, if a pupil
answers a question correctly the next question will be
harder and if they answer incorrectly the next question will
be easier. The student is asked 30 questions tailored to their
level, drawn from a larger bank that contains questions at
four levels of difficulty.

Unit assessment
There are two parts to this assessment. Part 1 is a series of
independent, unrelated questions. This is designed to be a
relatively easy, confidence-building stage of the assessment.
Part 2 is a series of tasks designed to identify and test the
more advanced pupils in the class. This stage places more
emphasis on making judgments and drawing conclusions,
requiring the pupil to recognise and implement solutions
with less prompting.

Revision test
The revision test is a two-part test like the unit assessments.
It contains a random sample of questions drawn from all of
the 15 units (up to 45 questions from a bank of 675). It
helps you to identify any areas where your pupils are weak
and could use further revision.

Types of questions
Various question types are used to evaluate both conceptual
understanding and the application of skills. They include,
multiple choice, matching, sequencing, combination and
simulation based items. They are based on the following
applications: Office 2003, Outlook 2003, Fireworks,
Internet Explorer 6, Dreamweaver and Flowol.

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Frequently asked questions Delivery Versions and System Requirements

Q. Do we need any additional
software licences?
A. No. This product requires the Macromedia
Flash Player v8 and Microsoft Internet
Explorer v6 or above, both of which are
free.
Q. What are the bandwidth requirements
for the hosted version?
A. 512kbps FREE bandwidth will support ten
concurrent users. Recommended minimum
connection speed is 2Mbps which should
support a simultaneous test of 30 pupils AND
typical internet traffic within a school.
Q. What about Tech Support?
A. It is included in the price.
Hosted version
Internet Connection
512Kbps of dedicated bandwidth will support
10 concurrent users
Network infrastructure
a proxy / cacheing server is recommended
Client requirements
(common to both Hosted and LAN versions)
Intel Pentium III or equivalent
256MB RAM
100MB free hard drive space
TCP/IP connection to the Internet
800 x 600 resolution display with 16-bit colour depth
(thousands of colours) or higher
Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows Vista
Microsoft Internet Explorer v6.0 or above (JavaScript,
and cookies enabled)
Macromedia Flash Player v8
Lesson Studio for ICT is our new teaching and
learning resource that helps teachers plan,
manage and deliver effective and motivating ICT
lessons at Key Stage 3.
Lesson Studio for ICT is a flexible resource to build ICT
capabilities that are required by National Curriculum
levels and skills across KS3. It comprises episodic
lesson plans, motivating starter activities, interactive
tutorials, differentiated exercises and tasks,
differentiated homework exercises, extension tasks
and a reporting and tracking facility
Lesson Studio for ICT and Level Tracker for ICT use
the same management system. This means you will
only have to set up your groups and classes once.
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What happens next?

To place your order, to request a free evaluation, or to discuss your
particular requirements, contact us.

Call 0845 672 0009

or e-mail schools@thirdforce.com
The EP schools portfolio includes teaching and learning
resources for Key Stage 3 ICT, ICTAC, DiDA and ECDL.
For more information visit

www.thirdforce.com

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 Product checklist
Create groups to reflect your school’s •Randomisation of the order of questions.
organisational structure •Randomisation of the order of options in
Yes. multiple choice questions.

Bulk create users from an existing Duration of assessment

data file Three options selectable by the teacher.
Yes.
Teacher can add comments to
Assign assessments individual assessment results
Easy. Can be done by any teacher, and an Yes.
assessment can be assigned to a whole
class in two clicks. Ability for teacher to overwrite
assessment results
Number of assessment types Yes.
Three:
•Diagnostic for use at the start of year 7. Questions assess
Skills AND application of skills in a given
•End of unit assessment for each of the context.
15 units in the DfES Framework.
•Revision test. Tests can be taken at home and
at school
Marking of assessments Yes.
Immediate and automated.
Reporting
Flexibility Flexible and customisable, and you can
Due to the adaptive method of testing run a query on all data at any time, with
used in the Diagnostic assessment and the immediate results.
differentiated elements used in the End of
unit assessments, this product is suitable Export reports data to csv
for pupils at all levels. Yes.

Randomisation of questions Per question detailed reports

There are three levels of randomisation Yes.
across the assessments:
•Randomisation of the allocation of Levelling provided
questions to each pupil. After every test.

ThirdForce—a long heritage in education

ThirdForce, through its EP product portfolio has been providing e-learning and
e-assessment resources for almost 20 years. We are one of the largest e-assessment
providers in the UK and we have developed high stakes e-assessments for OCR, CCEA
and the British Computer Society. We have a deep understanding of the Key Stage 3
Framework, with the development of Lesson Studio for ICT, our interactive resource
that teaches the Key Stage 3 ICT Framework. We have been working with teachers
and consultants to refine Level Tracker for ICT and to test the questions.

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