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Research and Trialling

Coming 2025/2026

Measure and Grow Attainment is a suite of new curriculum aligned digital assessments designed to measure understanding and progression of learners in Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3. We are piloting brand new tests in reading and maths Year 4 to Year 8.

Take part in assessment pilots

We're inviting schools and groups to help validate these new assessments to ensure they give you reliable results, helping to identify strengths and weaknesses, inform intervention strategies, and measure progress over time.

Assessment Research is Critical

Research plays a vital role in ensuring that the data we gather is valid, reliable and meaningful. Without careful trialling and analysis, assessments misrepresent what learners know and can do. Poorly designed tests often include tasks that are too easy, too hard, or fail to reflect the breadth of the curriculum. Through rigorous trialling and analysis of trial data, we can fine-tune assessments to avoid these issues, helping ensure that every test offers a fair, accurate and useful picture of learning.

You’ll get early access to new assessments, with clear data on pupil performance, gaps in knowledge and question-level analysis at student and group level. You'll also have a chance to feed into the design of our data and reports, maximising their value to you and your school or group.

Starting Autumn 2025, we will be conducting phase one of our validation studies for Reading and Maths. We look at how students interact with each of the questions through a combination observation and large scale trials, which allow us to study how well each question and the test as a whole informs us about what students know and can do.

Why participate?
  • Free early access to new digital Reading and Maths assessments

  • Student and class level reporting showing strengths and gaps in knowledge

  • No marking required. Just practical insight

  • Sessions to help you maximise the value of your data

  • Takes less than an hour to administer. We take care of the set up

  • As a special thank you, early trial schools will have free access - always

Participating in assessment pilots is perfect for teachers, subject and assessment leads who want easy access to assessment and clear insight without investing a lot of time setting up tests and getting familiar with new systems. More >>

Partner with Us

Let’s build assessment that works for you

We are working with a small number of schools and groups more closely. Not just as trial partners, but as co-designers. You'll have a chance to shape something from the ground up. To tell us what would make a real difference to your learners, educators, and school leaders.

Together, we will create affordable assessments with informative reports and data to help you maximise your teaching and learning focus, monitor progression, and demonstrate impact with data.

What does it involve?

We will work with you in a way that suits your time and capacity.

  • Share your views on what is working and what is not

  • Help shape the content and format of our assessments

  • Try out early versions in your classrooms and give feedback

  • Co-develop tools that meet your needs and respect your budget

You will get early access to everything we build, but more importantly, you will help shape it to meet your learning and assessment needs. Contact us at info@assessworks.com. We will follow up personally with next steps.