SOSCA: 
Information sheet Example Feedback
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).
- The English National Curriculum
- Scottish 5-14 Curriculum Guidelines
- Independent schools' curricula
- The National Curriculum in Wales
- The Northern Ireland Curriculum
- International schools following any of the above
Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring at Durham University home of MidYIS, Yellis and Alis.
See the SOSCA Site Map to see what web pages are available.
Latest News - updated 8th June 2009
SOSCA Baseline Feedback ready (8th June)
INSIGHT and SOSCA, taken at the end of Year 9, are alternatives to KS3 SATs. They offer computer-delivered adaptive assessments in Maths, Science and Reading. Results are reported as Key Stage 3 equivalent levels and standardised scores against nationally representative norms. Progress measures from the MidYIS assessment at the start of secondary school to the end of Year 9 and from the end of Year 9 to GCSE are also included in the cost. Additionally INSIGHT provides informative measures of developed ability to provide a full picture of what your pupils know and can do.
To find out more visit www.ceminsight.org and www.soscaproject.org or email insight@cem.dur.ac.uk or sosca@cem.dur.ac.uk
SOSCA FAQs include much updated information.
See our FAQ page.
SOSCA secure access now uses Secondary+
Secondary+ is CEM's secure website for easier, single-point access to all our secondary pre-16 information systems, including SOSCA.
SOSCA testing underway, 20th April to 15th May
Schools in UK and overseas are now using the SOSCA assessments in the 2009 Testing Window
CEM Centre conferences now include SOSCA.
Our secondary conferences are now planned to include information about using SOSCA.
E.g. 3 - 4th June 2009 in London (Using Data for Self Evaluation and Improvement)
For full details see the Conferences web page, Secondary Conferences or International Conferences.
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SOSCA offers independent assessments instead of KS3 SATs
It backs up teachers' judgement with objective evidence; it provides a detailed breakdown of pupils' individual attainment relative to nation-wide norms, and gives reliable subject-level and school-level measures of value-added performance.
And it's ready now and in use in schools throughout the UK and abroad.
Durham University