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I am pleased to announce that regulations regarding the publication of teacher assessment information came into force today. This is the first legislative change emerging from Successful Futures.  It also supports a key objective in Our National Mission “in delivering robust assessment, evaluation and accountability arrangements to support a self\-improving system.”


International evidence is clear: if we are to raise standards for every learner, then we must ensure we have a coherent assessment and accountability system. Assessment’s prime purpose is to provide information that guide decisions about how best to progress pupils’ learning. Yet, for too long, teacher assessments in Wales have wrongly been part of our accountability system; lines between the two have been blurred which has led to unintended consequences that can get in the way of raising school standards.


The changes that come into force today will ensure we now have a more coherent system. Teacher assessment data and National Reading and Numeracy Test data at a school, local authority and consortia level will no longer be published. This applies to the Foundation Phase, Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 in all maintained primary and secondary schools. These changes will help shift the focus back to using teacher assessment as a means to inform better teaching and learning. Our future arrangements will have a renewed emphasis on Assessment for Learning as an essential and integral feature of learning and teaching; it is a significant move away from gathering information about young people’s performance on a school\-by\-school basis for accountability purposes.


Arrangements that will remain


* National Reading and Numeracy Tests and Teacher Assessments for individual learners will continue.
* Headteachers will be required to report school performance to parents and adult learners each school year (parents will still be able to compare their children’s school performance with the national level).
* Governing bodies will be required to produce annual reports to parents, school prospectuses, school development plans, and set performance and absence targets.
* Schools, governing bodies and local authorities will still have access to their own data (alongside national level data) for self\-evaluation purposes.
* The Welsh Government will continue to collect individual learner level data to ensure transparency at a national performance level and to inform policy.


 


Arrangements that will change:


* The reports mentioned above won’t include comparative information about teacher assessments and tests, in relation to other schools within a local authority or ‘family of schools’.
* The Welsh Government will no longer produce or publish School Comparative Reports and All Wales Core Data Sets for schools and local authorities in respect of teacher assessment data (this applies to 2017/18 ‘datapacks’).
* The My Local School website will no longer include teacher assessment data below the national level.


 


I look forward to updating you about further progress on the delivery of the 4 ‘enabling objectives’ featured in Our National Mission.


This statement is being issued during recess in order to keep members informed. Should members wish me to make a further statement or to answer questions on this when the Assembly returns I would be happy to do so.







Translation:


 
Rwy'n falch i roi gwybod bod y rheoliadau sy'n ymwneud â chyhoeddi gwybodaeth asesiadau athrawon wedi dod i rym heddiw. Dyma'r newid deddfwriaethol cyntaf yn sgil Dyfodol Llwyddiannus. Mae hefyd yn cefnogi un o brif amcanion Cenhadaeth ein Cenedl, sef sicrhau “trefniadau asesu, gwerthuso ac atebolrwydd cadarn i ategu system hunanwella”.

Mae’r dystiolaeth ryngwladol yn glir: os ydym i godi safonau ar gyfer pob dysgwr, rhaid inni sicrhau bod gennym system asesu ac atebolrwydd gydlynol. Prif ddiben asesu yw darparu gwybodaeth sy’n cynnig canllaw wrth wneud penderfyniadau am y ffordd orau o ddatblygu camau dysgu disgyblion. Eto i gyd, am yn rhy hir, mae asesiadau athrawon yng Nghymru wedi bod yn rhan o’n system atebolrwydd; mae’r llinellau rhwng y ddwy elfen wedi mynd yn aneglur, gan arwain at ganlyniadau nad oeddem wedi’u bwriadu, a’n rhwystro rhag codi safonau ysgolion.

Bydd y newidiadau sy’n dod i rym heddiw yn sicrhau bod gennym, bellach, system fwy cydlynol. O hyn allan, ni fydd data asesu athrawon na data Profion Darllen a Rhifedd Cenedlaethol ar lefel yr ysgol, awdurdod lleol a chonsortia yn cael eu cyhoeddi. Mae hynny'n berthnasol i'r Cyfnod Sylfaen, Cyfnod Allweddol 2 a Chyfnod Allweddol 3 ym mhob ysgol gynradd ac uwchradd a gynhelir. Bydd y newidiadau hyn yn helpu i symud y sylw yn ôl i ddefnyddio asesiadau athrawon yn sail ar gyfer gwella addysgu a dysgu. Bydd ein trefniadau newydd yn rhoi pwyslais o'r newydd ar Asesu ar gyfer Dysgu fel nodwedd hanfodol ac annatod o ddysgu ac addysgu; mae hwn yn gam pwysig oddi wrth gasglu gwybodaeth am berfformiad pobl ifanc fesul ysgol at ddibenion atebolrwydd.

Y trefniadau a fydd yn parhau:

* Bydd y Profion Darllen a Rhifedd Cenedlaethol ac Asesiadau Athrawon ar gyfer dysgwyr unigol yn parhau.
* Bydd gofyn i Benaethiaid adrodd am berfformiad ysgol i rieni a dysgwyr sy'n oedolion bob blwyddyn ysgol (bydd rhieni'n gallu cymharu perfformiad ysgol eu plant â'r lefel genedlaethol o hyd).
* Bydd yn ofynnol i gyrff llywodraethu gynhyrchu adroddiadau blynyddol ar gyfer rhieni, prosbectysau ysgol, cynlluniau datblygu ysgolion, a phennu targedau perfformiad ac absenoldeb.
* Bydd ysgolion, cyrff llywodraethu ac awdurdodau lleol yn parhau i gael mynediad at eu data eu hunain (ynghyd â data ar lefel genedlaethol) at ddibenion hunanwerthuso.
* Bydd Llywodraeth Cymru yn parhau i gasglu data am ddysgwyr unigol i sicrhau tryloywder am berfformiad ar lefel genedlaethol ac fel tystiolaeth a fydd yn sail i'n polisïau.

Y trefniadau a fydd yn newid

* Ni fydd yr adroddiadau a grybwyllir uchod yn cynnwys gwybodaeth gymharol am asesiadau athrawon a phrofion mewn perthynas ag ysgolion eraill mewn ardal awdurdod lleol neu mewn perthynas â 'theulu o ysgolion'.
* Ni fydd Llywodraeth Cymru bellach yn cynhyrchu nac yn cyhoeddi Adroddiadau Ysgol Cymharol na Setiau Data Craidd Cymru Gyfan ar gyfer ysgolion ac awdurdodau lleol mewn perthynas â data asesu athrawon (mae hynny'n berthnasol i becynnau data 2017/18\).
* Ni fydd gwefan Fy Ysgol Leol bellach yn cynnwys data asesu athrawon sy'n is na'r lefel genedlaethol.

Edrychaf ymlaen at roi gwybod y diweddaraf ichi am ein cynnydd wrth gyflawni’r pedwar ‘amcan galluogi’ a nodir yn Cenhadaeth ein Cenedl.

Cyhoeddir y datganiad hwn yn ystod toriad er mwyn hysbysu'r Aelodau. Os bydd Aelodau am i mi wneud datganiad pellach neu ateb cwestiynau ar hyn pan fydd y Cynulliad yn ailymgynnull byddwn yn hapus i wneud hynny.