NGSA preparation
NGSA preparation that shows where every child stands.
The National Grade Six Assessment decides which secondary school a child goes to. Doctrina shows a Grade Six teacher or lessons teacher, paper by paper, who is ready, what to teach next, and how to explain it to a parent.
Past papers, marked
A stack of marked papers is not an answer.
Grade Six classes sit practice paper after practice paper. Each one produces a mark. None of them says which children are ready, or what to do about the ones who are not. Four things are read from every paper that a mark cannot show.
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Who rushed, and who ran out of time
Both lose marks at the end of a paper and both look the same on a mark sheet. One needs to slow down, the other to speed up. Every question is timed silently, so you can tell which is which.
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Which topics are soft
Every question maps to a syllabus topic, so a mark becomes a map: fractions solid, ratio shaky, measurement not yet.
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How hard the questions were
A child who tried the hard questions is not behind one who only answered the easy ones. Every score is adjusted for what it was earned on.
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Whether enough has been seen
Doing well on a fifth of the syllabus is not readiness. No child is called ready until enough has been assessed to say so.
For the parent
The question every parent asks.
Is my child ready? Every paper produces a report that answers it, in a form you can put straight in front of a parent.
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In ordinary words
Where the child stands, which of four bands they are in, and what would move them. No jargon a parent has to have explained.
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On one printed page
Made to be printed. Hand it over at a meeting, or send it home in a bag.
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Or signed in at home
A parent can sign in to see their own children, and nobody else’s.
For the school
Every Grade Six child on one screen.
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For the Grade Six teacher
One class at a time: which topic to teach next, how many children are struggling with it, and whether the term is moving.
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For the head teacher
Standing by subject across every Grade Six class, in totals, without opening a single child’s record.
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For the lessons teacher
Your own subjects, material and roster, with a report on each child you can put in front of the parent who is paying for the lessons.
For lessons teachers
Questions
What people ask first.
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How is a child’s readiness worked out?
From the papers they sit: how hard each question was, how long they took over it, which syllabus topic it tests, and how much of the syllabus has been covered so far. Together those place the child in one of four bands.
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When should a school start?
As early in the year as you can. Nobody is called ready until enough of the syllabus has been assessed, so more papers early means a firmer answer before the exam.
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Can a parent sign their child up directly?
Doctrina is set up for schools and lessons teachers, and parents sign in through them to see their own children. If your child’s school or lessons teacher does not use it yet, tell them about us.
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Who can see a child’s results?
Their teacher, their own parents, and a head teacher in totals. No path lets anyone browse.
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Do the children sit the papers online?
Yes. Papers are sat online, and built to hold up on poor and unstable connections.
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What does it ask of the teacher?
One small note on each question: how hard it is, and how long it should take. Two numbers, and that is the whole change to anybody’s day.
Talk to us
Bring one class,
one paper, one afternoon.
Tell us what you teach and how many students you have. We will show you the system set up with your own subjects in it, and what a readiness report looks like.
Doctrina Education builds and runs learning platforms for schools and tutors in Guyana and across the Caribbean, for the NGSA and CSEC syllabuses as they are actually examined.