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Good assessment tells you what pupils know; good use of data tells you what to do about it. But too many schools drown in data that doesn’t change anything, or collect it in ways that add workload without insight. This training helps your staff assess purposefully and use data to drive real improvement.
Below, we explain what our assessment and data training involves, and how it helps you use assessment to raise standards.
What Is Assessment & Data Training for Schools?
It’s practical training that helps teachers and leaders assess well and use data intelligently. We cover formative and summative assessment, designing assessments that show what pupils really know, analysing data, and turning it into action, without creating unnecessary workload.
We focus on assessment and data that improve teaching and outcomes, rather than data collected for its own sake, and tailor it to your systems and priorities.
Who Is This Training For?
It’s designed for all education settings: maintained schools, academies, and multi-academy trusts, Alternative Provisions, and SEND Units/Hubs. It suits assessment leads, senior leaders, subject leaders, and data managers. Trusts often run it across schools to align assessment and data practice.
Many schools ask for it to sharpen assessment, cut data workload, or use their data more effectively to raise standards.
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What Does the Training Cover?
We shape the content around your priorities. You can book a whole-school INSET, a group session, or focused one-to-one support. Our most common areas include:
- Formative and summative assessment that works
- Designing assessments that show real understanding
- Analysing and interpreting pupil data
- Turning data into action in the classroom
- Reducing assessment and data workload
- Tracking progress meaningfully
- Using data to support pupils with SEND and disadvantage
- Presenting data clearly to governors and inspectors
How This Training Helps Your School, Academy, Trust, or Alternative Provision
1
Assess what really matters
Staff learn to design assessments that show what pupils actually know, not just what they can recall for a test.
2
Turn data into action
We show your team how to use data to change teaching, not just record it. Data starts to make a difference.
3
Cut unnecessary workload
We help you strip out data collection that adds hours but no insight. Staff get time back.
4
Raise standards
When assessment and data drive teaching, outcomes improve across the school.
5
Track progress meaningfully
Your team learns to monitor progress in ways that are honest, useful, and not just about numbers.
6
Support vulnerable pupils
Better use of data helps you spot and support pupils with SEND or disadvantage sooner.
7
Communicate data with clarity
Staff learn to present data clearly to governors, trustees, and inspectors.
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How the Training Works
- 1We talk with you to understand your context, your staff, and what you want to change.
- 2We tailor the content to your setting, your phase, and your improvement priorities.
- 3We work with your own assessment systems where it helps, so the training is grounded in your context.
- 4We deliver the training in person or online, in a way that fits your calendar.
- 5We give you practical resources and tools your staff can use straight away.
- 6We follow up to help you embed the learning, so it sticks and changes classroom practice.
What Your Staff Get
Every participant comes away with more than notes. They get:
- Clear, practical strategies they can use in the next lesson
- A shared language and consistent approach across the team
- Ready-to-use resources, tools, and templates
- The confidence to put the training into practice
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Key Features of Our Training
Purposeful, not burdensome
We focus on assessment and data that improve teaching, not paperwork for its own sake.
Tailored to your systems
We shape the training around your assessment tools, phase, and priorities.
Whole-school, group, or individual
Book an INSET, a leadership session, or coaching. We adapt to you.
Why Choose Jarvis Education?
We work only with education settings. We know the difference between data that helps and data that just fills spreadsheets. Our training helps you use assessment to raise standards, with every decision staying focused on children.
Want to know how this training could work for your school? Just get in touch.
Next Steps & How to Get Started
- Speak to one of our experts. We’ll explain how we work, answer your questions, and help you shape the right training for your staff.
- We agree dates and delivery that suit your calendar, in person or online, and confirm everything in writing.
- Contact us today to discuss how we can support your school, academy, trust, and alternative provision.
- We’re ready to help and support you.
Who We Work With
We support settings of every type across England and internationally.
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