ICT gains
Teachers assess each child’s ICT level before they start DigiSmart and again at the end of the DigiSmart year. The following represents the most recent annual data for ICT improvement, for the academic year 2010/11.
ICT — Baseline and Final National Curriculum (NC) Levels
At the start of the project year, only 14% of the children were working at the expected national ICT level for Year 5 (i.e. NC level 3).
By the end of 2 terms, 99% were performing at or above the expected national ICT level for Year 5, with 89% working at level 4 or more (level 4 is the national expected attainment by the end of Year 6).*
The graph below illustrates the shift in children's ICT attainment from start to finish:
The above data is based on a sample of 144 children in 2010/11.
Attainment gains in ICT 2002–11
By analysing the baseline and final assessments for each child we track the attainment gain each child makes.
Since the start of the project in 2002, 80% of children have improved by 2 or more NC levels in ICT during the project year. All children improved by at least 1 NC level during the year they were involved in DigiSmart.*
The chart below shows the distance travelled by children in terms of improved attainment:
The above data is based on a sample of 1086 children from 2002–2011.
* DigiSmart supports 12 of the 14 ICT National Curriculum requirements for Year 5.