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Category: Yacapaca
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Yacapaca is designed to boost results across your school or college. Here’s how: Know what your students know with analytics From question-by-question detail, through key concept analysis, per-topic progression through the
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Flightlines are a fantastic tool to communicate progress (or the lack of it) to students and their parents. A Flightline is a chart that shows two types of information very simply: … monthly average grades achieved … the grades that should be achieved each month if the end-of-year target is to be met …and now…
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With the recent updates to both the teacher and student modules of Yacapaca, the blog was well overdue for an overhaul. And here it is. As well as improving legibility for longer articles, I wanted to make
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Yacapaca delivers criterion-referenced assessments. This makes it very useful for doing things like predicting exam grades, because exams are based on tightly-standardised criteria. A Grade C is the same in Barnsley as it is in Basingstoke. At the upper secondary stage (KS4 in England) we have been able to support a wide spectrum of qualifications, and…
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The student interface is based around two lists, the To-Do List and the Archive. In the past, we’ve been a bit inconsistent with the To-Do List and included items that students might want to see, but did not actually have any action attached. That has now been cleaned up and a simple rule implemented. If…
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