Group pupils by attainment
Group children with similar levels of attainment to facilitate targeted teaching.
At a glance
- Age ranges
- 4-8 years
- 8-14 years
- Test duration
- 10–30 minutes
- Test format
- Paper (online group reporting tool available)
Assess pupils' ability with numbers and identify specific numeracy skills requiring targeted teaching.
Identify specific number skills that require targeted teaching and monitor the impact of teaching interventions on a one-to-one basis.
This assessment comprises SENT–R for pupils aged 4–8 years, and SENT KS2–KS3 for pupils aged 8–14 years.
It explores five strands of basic numeracy skills: identification, oral counting, value, object counting and language.
How SENT can help you
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Monitor impact
Monitor the impact of teaching interventions on children’s rate of progress, including effective use of the Pupil Premium.
Online marking and reporting
Enter pupils’ scores for each of the five strands of the test into the online marking tool to automatically generate group reports, including group and national comparisons.
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Training
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Support
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FAQs
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What subtests/skills are assessed?
- Identification
- Oral counting
- Value
- Object counting
- Language
When would I use SENT?
SENT is designed to identify gaps in a pupil’s basic understanding of number skills, which may be leading to difficulty in grasping higher order mathematical subject content as the curriculum progresses. It is used to identify where these gaps are and to monitor improvement as interventions are used.
As a one-to-one tool it would be used when a particular pupil exhibits low attainment in mathematics in comparison to their ability. This could be identified through teacher judgement, or, if you are using CAT4 and the Progress Test in Maths, when there is a large difference between reasoning with number (CAT4) in comparison to their scores in the Progress Test in Maths.
What data does the Online Marking Tool generate?
The tool generates data including raw score, standard age score (SAS), stanine, national percentile rank and group rank. You can analyse and compare:
- Individual student data
- Group demographic comparison
- Group and national stanine distributions
- By strands
- By age-equivalent band