Sometimes known as pre-testing, a baseline assessment is used to determine the prior knowledge that students have about a topic before it is taught.

Baseline assessments allow teachers to show students an overview of what they will be learning and direct their teaching. Baseline assessments can also be used to inform catch-up planning, or additional revision sessions towards the end of the course.

In addition to providing electronic flashcards, Smart Revise Terms is ideal for baseline assessments.

A teacher can:

1. Enable a reflective or interactive Terms mode.
2. Set the topic filters to just the topic being studied.

Reflective mode only requires students to read a definition and RAG rate themselves. Interactive mode also requires students to write a definition in addition to RAG rating themselves.

A student can:

1. Select Terms reflective or interactive mode.
2. Read the topic specific term, write a definition and RAG rate themsleves. Red = no knowledge, Amber = some knowledge, Green = understood.

After the assessment, a teacher can:

• Use the Analytics – Smart Terms – Student overview report to see understanding of a topic at a glance.
• Use the Analytics – Smart Terms – Terms analysis report to see the top ten least understood terms.
• Use the Analytics – Smart Terms – Student responses report to see a more detailed analysis of each term and change the recorded confidence for a student.

Smart Revise Tasks is ideal for setting assessments. These can be auto-marked multiple choice questions and/or self, peer, teacher marked longer answer questions.

When setting a baseline assessment task, we suggest either selecting all the quiz questions or all the terms questions in the selected topic.