Teaching and Learning Guidance

If you’re a Plus user, you’ll find our teaching and learning guidance included as part of your package. If you currently have the Core package, you won’t be able to see the teaching and learning guidance. To upgrade to Plus and unlock this feature, please email insight@cambridge.org

What does the Teaching and Learning Guidance look like?

We’ve added evidenced-based teaching and learning ideas and activities to our high-quality baseline assessment data reporting. This will help you to work smarter and more efficiently to support the children in your classroom. 

The teaching and learning guidance includes links to worksheets, activity instructions, online activities and research articles. We’ve highlighted strategies that are particularly effective for English as an Additional Language (EAL) learners and included extra resources to support your own professional development. These are designed to be incorporated into your existing lesson plans and schemes of learning.

Example activities:

How is it organised?

Your students’ baseline assessment scores have been used to group the students into four capability bands in each assessment module:

• Low <85 - Students performing below average expectations
• Low average 85-99 - Students performing at the lower end of average
• High average 100-115 - Students performing at the upper end of average
• High >115 - Students performing above average

Teaching and Learning guidance is available for each of these ability groups for students aged 5-7, 7-9 and 9-11.

Where will you find the Teaching and Learning Guidance?

The Teaching and Learning Guidance is found in the Summary of Scores report:

1. Go to the data and reports area in your CPI portal.
2. Choose the Summary of Scores report.

3. Use the filters to select the academic year, year group and assessment module (mathematics, arithmetic, reading or spelling) you want to view. You must select a single year group. Select “Age-standardised” as the score type.

4. Score range buttons will appear at the top of the table of baseline assessment scores. Choose an ability group: low, low average, high average or high.

5. Click “View Guidance” in the top right-hand corner.

6. The Teaching and Learning guidance will appear on the right of the screen. There are teaching ideas at the top, and suggested activities below including links to follow for more information and resources.

7. Use the download button to download the guidance as a pdf, if you would like to, into the downloads folder of the device you’re working on.

8. To view the Teaching and Learning Guidance for a different group, simply choose a different year group or ability group using the filters and score-range buttons.

Why can’t I see the Teaching and Learning Guidance?

If you’re a Plus user, make sure you’ve selected a single year group, the mathematics, arithmetic, spelling or reading module (not overall), and the age-standardised score type. If not, you’ll see this reminder message:

If your school has the Core package, you won’t be able to see the Teaching and Learning guidance. Instead, you’ll see the message below if you click the “View guidance” button. To upgrade, email insight@cambridge.org