SOSCA:
Secondary On Screen Curriculum Assessments
- Any school that wants to know how their pupils are performing relative to the curriculum and against other pupils in the sample;
- Schools that are interested in seeing how much progress (value-added) their pupils have made, both during the lower part of secondary school (from the MidYIS baseline test) and during the last two years of compulsory schooling (from SOSCA to external examinations).
- Scottish 5-14 Curriculum Guidelines
- Independent schools' curricula
- The National Curriculum in Wales
- The Northern Ireland Curriculum
- The English National Curriculum
- International schools following any of the above
See the SOSCA Site Map to see what web pages are available.
Latest News - updated 30 June 2008
SOSCA Value Added Feedback available from 27 June 2008 (from MidYIS, where appropriate)
Schools have been notified by email and letter.
SOSCA Attainment and Predictions Feedback available from 30 May 2008
Schools have been notified by email and letter that their feedback is available from the SOSCA+ secure website.
Comments from schools: "...very impressed by the speed of getting the feedback".
"The software worked well and we had NO problems."
SOSCA Example Feedback updated for 2008
View or download the PDF file from the Downloads page.
New addition: SOSCA Attitudes to Science survey - example report. The survey itself is described on the Feedback page.
Registration deadline is now 21st April 2008.
We can accept registrations right up to the beginning of the testing window: 21st April to 16th May 2008.
SOSCA Coordinator Guide now available for 2008
This more compact Coordinator Guide replaces the Guides previously available. View or download the PDF file from the Downloads page.
CEM Centre conferences now include SOSCA
Our secondary conferences are now planned to include information about using SOSCA.
The next one is on the 4th & 5th June 2008 at The Novotel Hotel in London.
For full details see the Secondary Conferences web page.



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