The View understanding page provides details how well each child understands each concept or ARE for the different year groups, and also shows how this has changed since their last baseline assessment.
Getting the level right
When a child first starts using Doodle, they’ll be asked to complete a series of exercises to help Doodle determine their level and build them a personalised work programme. This is known as baseline assessment mode.
Following this initial assessment, teachers can start a new one at any point from this page, making it an ideal assessment tool. You can also compare the results of each child’s assessment with their current level of understanding.
Baseline assessment mode can also be used to ensure that every child is working at the correct level. Doodle will automatically recommend if any students should take an assessment if their work programme appears to be too easy or challenging. More information on how to complete a baseline assessment can be found here.
Viewing Understanding
As children use Doodle more and more, the programme builds up a good understanding of their strengths and weaknesses. View understanding is arranged according to curriculum areas (Age Related Expectations - the national curriculum age-related expectations, AREs) and allows you to view your pupils’ understanding of each strand.
Students View
By choosing the ‘Students’ tab, you can see individual data for each child in the class.
The Baseline Assessment column (the column on the left) displays the level of understanding that the child had in that subject or year group's curriculum based on their answers in their last baseline assessment. Their current understanding is shown in the column on the right.
You can see a RAG rating in order to assess a child’s understanding and compare this to their baseline assessment understanding.
Red shows the child is currently developing their understanding of this area
Amber shows the child is working at an average level for this area
Green shows the child is exceeding expectations for this area
Green with a white plus sign shows they have mastered that particular area.
It is also possible to dig deeper and view understanding on different topics within the ARE by clicking on the arrows to the left of the year group or curriculum topic. Assignments can be added to the child's account, by clicking on the 'plus' sign next to the ARE title.
Don't be alarmed if your students are covering content below their year group. This is because Doodle works by filling in any gaps from previous learning to ensure that your teaching can build upon this. The most important thing is that the questions they are being asked are sufficiently challenging to them as an individual to ensure progress, without being excessively difficult and leaving them demoralised.
Teachers can also view any questions pupils have marked as Tricky on this page, making it easy to support pupils in the areas they’re finding challenging. Tricky Questions are the number of questions a student has marked as Tricky to come back to later. This will be indicated with a red exclamation mark. Click on this to view the questions. We recommend that students don't have any more than 5-10 questions in their Tricky Questions folder. Once saved to Tricky Questions, this indicates to the app that the child is struggling with this particular topic and you can help the student with this question.
ARE View
By selecting the ARE tab, the teacher is able to query understanding of each ARE across the class and not just for individual students.
Data can be filtered by year group, ARE or concept within the ARE.
The data shown in both the Student View and the ARE View can be exported and downloaded by pressing the Export button in the top right hand corner.