Assessment Trials on CENTURY

As part of our work into creating high-quality assessments for schools, CENTURY often conducts paid trials with schools to ensure that the assessments are as robust and reliable as possible.

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Table of Contents

• Available assessment trials (UK only)
• Why are we trialing assessments?
• Conditions of participation
• Participation criteria
• Benefits of participating
• Data sharing
• How to participate

We have recently changed our conditions from previous assessment trials. Please ensure that you read the sections below before participating. Payments for some assessments are limited to the first 800 tests completed, so incentives are limited. Please let us know if you wish to take part, but please be prepared to complete these assessments as swiftly as possible.

Available assessment trials (UK only)

The following lists all of the assessment trials that are currently running at CENTURY. If you’d like to participate in a trial, register your interest here. Please first ensure that your school fulfils the participation criteria outlined below. Only schools that have registered and received confirmation from us will be able to claim the incentives listed.

Academic assessments

Non-academic assessments

Why are we trialling assessments?

We are confident in the quality of our assessments, but we want to ensure that they are fully robust. Our assessments are at different phases of development as explained below.

Conditions of participation

In order to receive the incentives above, schools will need to fulfil all of the following conditions:

1. Register here for Baseline Assessments, or here for cognitive ability assessments
2. Share the required data (more details in the Data Sharing section below)
3. Provide feedback on the assessments. A short feedback form will be provided to you upon completion of the trial.

Participation criteria

As we are looking for a fair representation of schools and students from across the UK, we are currently looking for:

• UK-based primary and secondary schools
• Current subscribers of CENTURY
• Ability to conduct assessments in classroom testing conditions, preferably with the full class/year group.

Unfortunately, we are not able to accommodate alternative provision schools or tuition centres for our current assessment trials, although this may change in future.

Benefits of participating

In addition to the above incentives, each academic assessment sat will produce an automatically-generated report of your students’ performances, providing meaningful and actionable data at a student, class, and school level, complementing our existing learning and data offer.

As the development of the assessments progress, we are working to improve the reporting by including standardised scores. This is already available for Year 5 and 6 Baseline Assessments, as below:

Finally, your school will play an active part in shaping the future of assessments on CENTURY!

Data sharing

If you are participating in a trial, we require a data refresh on CENTURY for school census purposes. This data is often already in the platform, but we require a refresh to update potentially out-of-date or incomplete information – this will be used to ensure the data sample of the item trial is a fair representation of student demographics. We require the following data points according to census standards:

• Date of birth
• Sex
• SEN status
• EAL status
• Pupil Premium status

All data is handled according to our high data handling standards in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

If using Groupcall or CSV

There is a template here and we would be happy to speak to your MIS manager to facilitate this. Please share this data in a secure manner, either via a password protected file or Google drive folder link shared with assessments@century.tech.

If using Wonde

Please follow the steps below.

1. Log in to school.wonde.com
2. Click on ‘CENTURY Tech’ in ‘Applications’
3. Approve the below listed permissions
1. Students English as additional language read (Optional)
2. Students FSM read (Optional)
3. Students SEN read (Optional)
4. Students premium pupil indicator read (Optional)
4. Click the green ‘Update permissions’ button

How to participate

If you are interested in participating in these trials and your school also fulfils the criteria above, we would love to hear from you. Please fill in the relevant form below to register your interest.

• Baseline Assessment trial registration form
• Cognitive ability assessment trial registration form

If you have any other queries about assessments, please contact us at assessments@century.tech and we will be happy to support.