Ready to progress report

Modified on Thu, 12 Jun at 11:20 AM

The Ready-to-progress reports provide tables for each year and term’s assessment to match each question in the test with the Department for Education’s ready-to-progress criteria.

In June 2020, the Department for Education, in conjunction with the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics, released non-statutory guidance designed to “make effective use of the national curriculum to develop primary school pupils’ mastery of mathematics”. This guidance highlights core concepts from the national curriculum that pupils need to master in order to progress to higher learning within the next curriculum year. It also shows the progression of each skill from year 1 to year 6. Once a child has mastered a skill or concept from their current year group, they should be ready to move on to the next year’s skill or concept. Likewise, they need to have mastered the previous year’s skill or concept before they can access the curriculum content from their current year group. These core skills and concepts are called the “Ready-to-progress (RTP) criteria” and are divided into Number and place value, Number facts, Addition and subtraction, Multiplication and division, Fractions, and Geometry. It is important to note that there is not a discrete RTP criterion for every area in the national curriculum; for example, “measurement and statistics are integrated as applications of number criteria, and elements of measurement that relate to shape are included in the geometry strand”.

The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) has taken the RTP criteria and identified the relevant criteria for each question in each test for NFER’s online assessments (NOA). Using these tables, in conjunction with the NOA reports, will help to identify gaps in learning and enable teachers to provide targeted support for learners to access progressively more difficult areas of the curriculum.

To access the Ready-to-progress reports:

Select the Ready-to-progress report icon from the report screen in NOA, there is a choice of reports from which to select.

Once selected, the report will automatically download as a PDF file, which can then be saved or printed as required.

The questions in each test can be viewed in the following reports on the NOA reporting tool, by selecting the Report icon from the menu bar:

Question level – all learner report, or Question level – summary report – select the View button on each question to see an image of the question with a model answer.

Individual learner response report – this shows all the questions in a test with the responses of the selected learner.

More detail on the ready-to-progress criteria with descriptions of how to support pupils can be found at DfE Ready to progress criteria.