We are proud to now offer baseline assessments on CENTURY, in a new area of the platform, accessible via your usual CENTURY logins. Currently in secondary we offer year baselines in mathematics and science.
Mathematics
Our Year 7 Baseline Assessment is designed to identify gaps in the foundational knowledge essential for success at Key Stage 3. It places a strong emphasis on Number skills, while also covering key concepts from Geometry, Measures, and Statistics.
The assessment includes a broad range of question difficulties, making it accessible to lower-attaining students while offering sufficient challenge for the most able. This assessment can be completed within a single 50-minute lesson. It serves as a precise diagnostic tool, enabling teachers to quickly pinpoint learning gaps and effectively inform planning at both class and year group levels.
Science
Our Year 7 Baseline Assessment is designed to ensure a smooth transition to secondary science by strategically building upon core Key Stage 2 English National Curriculum content. We meticulously selected foundational scientific knowledge from Years 3 to 6 that is directly relevant and prerequisite to the Key Stage 3 curriculum, while deliberately omitting content domains not revisited until the GCSE course.
This assessment can be completed within a 50-minute lesson. It provides teachers with a precise diagnostic tool, enabling them to immediately identify learning gaps, inform strategic planning, and effectively differentiate instruction, fostering a more confident and successful start to secondary school science for every student.
How are these different from diagnostics?
These summative assessments are designed to test students across entire subjects in a more formalised way at the beginning or end of the year. See the Assessment Topics for a break down of what these assessments contain.
Diagnostics, on the other hand, focus on more specific topic areas; will influence the pathway and can be done in a less formal manner, in line with day-to-day teaching and learning.
Reporting
You can download CSV and PDF reports for students from the platform, giving a breakdown of their performance across the topic area:
The Assessment Report breaks down each topic of the assessments by the class and suggests strengths, areas for improvement and suggested nuggets:
Each topic is broken down into the different objectives on a class level:
The future of assessments on CENTURY
We will be continuing to develop our assessments suite, with our next steps including:
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Standardisation of questions and submissions
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Strengthening links between assessment submissions and learning recommendations on the platform
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Developing additional assessments
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Long-form written assessments to enable us to build an English assessment
For more information about using assessments, please see our help page.