Shine Interventions are targeted interventions for reading skills, GPS, and maths. They are designed to address specific gaps in understanding and deliver targeted individual and group intervention activities.
You can purchase Shine Interventions here. Alternatively, contact your local assessment consultant.
Primary school interventions for ages 4-11:
- Shine Interventions: Maths, driven by NTS Mathematics, New PUMA, or PUMA for Scotland results. Target all maths strands in the National Curriculum with over 200 potential intervention sequences.
- Shine Interventions: Reading Skills, driven by NTS Reading, New PiRA, and PiRA for Scotland results. Target retrieval, inference and vocabulary with original fiction, non-fiction, and poetry texts.
- Shine Interventions: GPS, driven by New GaPS assessment results. Target grammar, punctuation, spelling, and vocabulary with fiction and non-fiction texts.
Secondary school interventions for ages 10-16:
- Shine Interventions: Access Reading Tests (ART), designed to develop reading power and reading skills for learners who may not have achieved expected results when taking an Access Reading Test (ART). Each intervention (known as a Learning Sequence) contains an interactive teacher presentation, three worksheets (including texts and tasks) and an answer sheet.
- Shine Interventions: Access Mathematics Tests (AMT), designed to develop essential maths skills for learners who may not have achieved expected results when taking an Access Mathematics Test (AMT). Each intervention (known as a Learning Sequence) contains an interactive teacher presentation, a printable worksheet (with a separate answer sheet), printable activities, an online quiz and teacher guidance notes.
Finding and Using the Interventions/Learning Sequence Resources
You can access the interventions/Learning Sequence resources via links embedded in the Individual and Grouped Shine Interventions reports.
Each Learning Sequence is a unit of remedial content that addresses an area of learning in each term. They are arranged in a specific order and contain instructions tailored to teachers and teaching assistants.
At the bottom of this page you will find the record and impact forms, guidance documents, and monitoring sheets required to support your use of the Learning Sequences.
See Shine Interventions Reports for detailed guidance.
Shine AMT and ART Progress Quizzes and Strand Tests
Shine Interventions: AMT and ART subscriptions include Progress quizzes for you to administer post-intervention to check your learners' progress and retention.
Shine Interventions: AMT also includes Strand tests. These are used pre-intervention to determine the specific Learning Sequences a learner needs intervention in based on their AMT test results (each strand contains several Learning Sequences).
You will need an active Shine Interventions: AMT and/or ART subscription to administer these tests and quizzes, but they do not require additional AMT and ART interactive test credits to assign.
For help assigning the Progress quizzes and Strand tests, click here.
Shine AMT and ART Progress Quiz and Strand Test Reports
Once your learners have completed their AMT or ART Progress quiz or AMT Strand test, you can generate two reports: an 'Intervention Progress Quiz Report' and an 'Intervention Quiz Report: Comparison View'.
The Intervention progress quiz report can be generated for a class or group. It will show each learner’s total score as a percentage and how they've performed on each question.
The Intervention quiz: comparison view report can be generated for a class or group. It allows you to compare learners’ results to track their progress. You can select up to six quizzes and must select a minimum of two to generate the report.
See Generating Reports for Shine Interventions AMT and ART Progress Quizzes and Strand Tests for further guidance.