Evidence for Learning has transformed how hundreds of SEND schools, colleges and provisions are able to evidence, assess, review and plan for meeting the unique needs of their SEND learners, especially in light of the Rochford Review.
It supports an Inquiry-based approach to education and provision, that allows ALL stakeholders in a child, young person or adult’s learning and development to quickly and easily gather photo and video evidence, linked to the individual’s learning goals as well as any key skills frameworks. Observations can be annotated and tagged to reflect your school’s basket of indicators in an instant. Evidence for Learning supports ANY assessment framework and ANY assessment model – including evidencing and tracking progress against individual learning intentions and targets related to Education Health & Care (EHC) Plans. What’s more, teachers can easily amend and add to these goals over time in order to respond to a learners’ ongoing needs and development.
All evidence gathered is automatically organised by the app and readily available on-demand to anyone in the school. Stakeholders can search for and sort evidence by any attribute, and schools use these features to save time and workload and crucially to be better informed during planning, moderation and ongoing professional development. The same tools support real time deep dives into any aspect(s) and area(s) of your school’s curriculum – allowing you to see how individual learners are experiencing your curriculum and how teaching is being personalised to support that learner’s needs. Evidence for Learning gives you a platform and the tools to develop and demonstrate connected practice which links curriculum, pedagogy and assessment.
EfL has also transformed how parents/carers, external stakeholders and the learner themselves are engaged and involved in the entire learning process and journey – a multi-agency approach. Not only can photos, videos and notes be easily and securely shared by the school, but parents/carers can capture and submit their own photos, videos and notes to reflect the learner’s development and experiences at home and outside in the community. Invaluable collaboration and powerful at showing where learning and knowledge is beginning to be generalised.
Evidence for Learning is perfect for supporting the new Engagement Model as defined and in the recently published guidance from the Department for Education (2020). The app has been used for many years by schools  around the world to support engagement-oriented approaches, such as the models developed by Professor Barry Carpenter et al, and has been featured in a paper delivered by Professor Carpenter to the International Society of Early Intervention Conference, Sydney, June 2019.
Insights for Learning is the companion toolkit that runs alongside Evidence for Learning and can provide you and your stakeholders with valuable insights based on the rich treasure of information, data, interactions and evidence collected through Evidence for Learning. Crucially, in the same way that Evidence for Learning is completely customised to reflect your school’s curriculum and assessment approach and broader provision models, so Insights for Learning allows you to see the important information that helps leaders, teachers and other stakeholders have effective conversations about the learning going on in and out of school and quality of provision.
We invite you to get in touch to arrange a phone call or webinar to explore how, with Evidence for Learning and Insights for Learning, this could become a reality!
Use the camera on your device to capture evidence of learning as it happens in the classroom, outdoors –Â ANYWHERE!
Quickly and easily annotate and link evidence to any relevant learning outcomes /targets for the learner – link back to your school’s curriculum, learner’s EHCP outcomes and any short term targets. Your evidence can show progress from any starting point.
An Internet connection is NOT required to capture evidence.
All authorised staff, teachers and leaders have access to evidence and case studies for learners. Option to share and collaborate with parents, carers and external stakeholders such as Physiotherapists, SaLTs, OT, VI/HI advisers, etc.. These stakeholders can also be allowed to collect evidence and share observations fostering a truly multi-agency approach.
Pathway, phase and curriculum leads are able to access frameworks, assessment books and evidence to review and support deep dives into their areas of responsibility.
Make professional judgements that are informed and corroborated by the evidence collected. Assessments can be made against ANY framework – collective or completely-personalised (e.g. personal learning intentions and EHCPs) using ANY scale or continuum, such as MAPP or your own custom mastery/independence continuums.
Tools are pre-loaded that enable you to work with the New Engagement Model (DfE, 2020) both formatively and to produce your summative assessment for those learners that are not engaged in subject-specific learning.
Quickly generate professional-looking personalised learning journeys, engagement reports, learner profiles, assessment books and curriculum coverage and progress grids at the touch of a button.
Plus interactive assessment books bring together ALL formative and observational data into ONE place to create video/photo-based case studies and time lines showing quality of provision, impact and progression through high quality evidence and professional reflections – alongside assessment data and professional judgements.