If your child sat the SEAG test (any year) and you have your child’s PTM and PTE scores from Primary 6, then I have a favour to ask and I would be eternally grateful if you could spare me for a minute or two of your time because I genuinely believe we have the opportunity to be part of something really special that has never been done before.
PTM and PTE assessments and the SEAG test are designed for different purposes:
- PTM and PTE assessments are used by primary schools to help measure attainment and support teaching and learning.
- The SEAG test is used by participating grammar schools as part of their admissions process.
However, although PTM/PTE and the SEAG test have different purposes, many parents wonder whether there is any relationship between the scores achieved in these assessments.
Why am I carrying out this research?
For over 10 years, one of the questions parents have asked me most often is whether there is a relationship between PTM, PTE and SEAG scores.
As already mentioned, while these assessments are designed for different purposes, there is currently no publicly available independent research exploring the relationship between PTM, PTE and SEAG scores and this project aims to answer that question and identify any overall trends and share those findings with parents.
Why Should You Contribute?
Your contribution is invaluable (as always) as this research very much depends on the large number of parents providing their individual data, so every submission helps build a more complete and reliable picture.
If you have your child’s PTM, PTE and SEAG scores, please take a few minutes to complete the form below. Your contribution will help create an independent evidence base that will benefit parents for years to come and might even answer questions you have yourself about your own child’s results.
It is important to remember that this project aims to identify trends across a large number of children and individual children’s results may differ significantly. Therefore, any trends identified should not be relied upon to predict an individual child’s SEAG score and this is certainly not the intended purpose of this research.
Together, We Can Build A Better Understanding
I am a parent of four children and I know it can be a pain to dig out the information needed for this, but like everything I do at The Transfer Tutor, it is about working as a collaborative community with the aim of making the transfer process as open and transparent as possible for all parents.
With over 40,000 people following The Transfer Tutor across different social media channels, I genuinely believe we have a unique opportunity to build one of the largest independent datasets exploring the relationship between PTM, PTE and SEAG scores.
Inevitably this often involves a little work on your side. but on the flip side this research might indeed help your own family and friends, but will most definitely help many other families, now and into the future, understand those niggling questions they have about the relationship between these different assessments.
I think that makes it worth the effort and thank you in advance for being part of it and taking the time to help.
Every child’s scores is one piece of the puzzle. Together, they help build the story.