Mathematics Assessment for Learning and Teaching
The trusted way to assess and monitor performance at individual, class and whole-school level.
The complete mathematics assessment package, MaLT provides the essential data that schools need, plus powerful and efficient Assessment for Learning in line with 'world-class' practice.
A tried and tested approach to standardised mathematics assessment for ages 5-14, developed for Hodder Education by the University of Manchester.
Nationally standardised on over 12500 pupils, MaLT can be used at any time during the school year - for screening, monitoring and tracking progress, as well as for individual diagnostic profiling.
Available in both pencil-and-paper and interactive computer-adaptive (CAT) formats, these nationally standardised tests - for groups or individuals - also yield diagnostic information which will directly support individual and whole-class teaching. MaLT mental maths tests are also available.
What’s new in MaLT?
- A much simpler structure to make it easier for you to assess your pupils and get the information you need
- There are now just three Teacher Manuals – one each for Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 – putting all the key information in one place
- Plus just one Scorer/Profiler CD-ROM for use with all the tests. This makes it much easier to record and monitor year-on-year progress across ages 5-14. It also enables you to mark all of the pencil-and-paper tests on-screen
- All questions have been mapped to the new Maths Frameworks, giving up-to-date strands and objectives to make it easy to see how well your pupils are performing and to provide the information you need. MaLT is also fully mapped to APP.
There is more information in children's responses than merely right/wrong. MaLT assessments are purpose-written to highlight particular errors and misunderstandings which are diagnostic of key learning needs - counting errors, misconceptions with decimals, etc. MaLT also provides the summative measures of performance needed for screening, monitoring and progress assessment. MaLT tests have been standardised nationally, ensuring secure, reliable results.
MaLT samples all aspects of mathematics from Reception to Year 9, generating comprehensive assessments and providing:
- standardised scores, percentiles and National Curriculum levels, plus
- year-on-year progress assessment
- attainment target performance profiles
- individualised formative and diagnostic feedback to pupils
- whole-class profiles identifying weaknesses, common misconceptions and errors.
For every child, a personalised, diagnostic report - generated automatically by computer-adaptive assessment (view demo); or computer-aided via the user-friendly Scorer/Profiler CD-ROM (view demo) from the paper-and-pencil tests - is available, indicating how the assessments might directly feed into teaching.
This dual formative-summative design will help schools and teachers to maintain rigorous standardised assessment while also developing formative assessment - assessment that informs teaching and guides future learning. MaLT will also support schools in moving from paper-and-pencil group screening of whole classes to individually-adapted computer assessment, on an assessment-when-ready basis.
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Year group |
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Test |
Norms for chronological ages (years:months) |
NC Levels | England & Wales |
Scotland |
Northern Ireland |
MaLT 5 |
4:0 to 6:5 |
W - 2c | Reception |
Primary 1 |
Year 1 |
MaLT 6 |
5:0 to 7:5 |
W - 2a | Year 1 |
Primary 2 |
Year 2 |
MaLT 7 |
6:0 to 8:5 |
W - 2a | Year 2 |
Primary 3 |
Year 3 |
MaLT 8 |
7:0 to 9:5 |
1a - 4c | Year 3 |
Primary 4 |
Year 4 |
MaLT 9 |
8:0 to 10:5 |
2c - 4c | Year 4 |
Primary 5 |
Year 5 |
MaLT 10 |
9:0 to 11:5 |
3c - 4a | Year 5 |
Primary 6 |
Year 6 |
MaLT 11 |
10:0 to 12:5 |
3c - 5c | Year 6 |
Primary 7 |
Year 7 |
MaLT 12 |
11:0 to 13:5 |
4c - 5a | Year 7 |
Secondary 1 |
Year 8 |
MaLT 13 |
12:0 to 14:5 |
4c - 6a | Year 8 |
Secondary 2 |
Year 9 |
MaLT 14 |
13:0 to 15:5 |
4c - 7a | Year 9 |
Secondary 3 |
Year 10 |
MaLT Computer-adaptive testing
(network and single-user versions)
Version 2 coming soon!
MaLT computer-adaptive assessments - on-screen, individually differentiated assessment, tailored to the ability and performance of the individual pupil - are suitable for use from age 8+, and cover National Curriculum Levels 2 to 7+.
Version 2 provides enhanced on-screen presentation plus updated reporting (including strands).
Computer-adaptive assessment is sensitive to the individual pupil's answers on the test, selecting and presenting new questions that are optimally matched to the pupil's performance. This technique enables MaLT to explore each pupil's mathematical knowledge, understanding and skills at the limits of his or her own ability, yielding a finely textured profile of what he or she can and cannot do. It also makes for highly efficient and effective assessment that significantly reduces teacher workload.
Fully computerised and networkable, the intuitive and fully interactive on-screen presentation gives instant analysis and results: National Curriculum levels and age-standardised scores (based on a minimum number of items per test) plus personalised feedback to support assessment for learning and focus support. Pupil reports and group performance analyses highlight strengths and pinpoint specific weaknesses at both individual and whole-class levels.
The network edition is designed for whole-school use - discounts are available for smaller schools.
The single-user (non-networkable) version is designed specifically for individual assessments by individual support staff.
MaLT Diagnostic Mental Mathematics Tests
Mental mathematics - rapid recall of mathematical facts and versatile mental processing - is a key component of KS2 and KS3 national testing in England, and underpins general facility with numbers.
The MaLT Diagnostic Mental Mathematics Tests are standardised tests which are tiered across national curriculum levels 3-5. They include Number, Space, shape & measures and Handling data questions, and have been written by experienced test writers to reflect national testing at Key Stages 2 and 3, but specifically also to include diagnostic analysis of pupils' errors. Such errors can alert the teacher to key misconceptions, misinterpretations or faulty methods that can be addressed via one-to-one interactions or whole-class discussion.
The CD provides the audio-delivery for six tests, each in three timed sections (5, 10 and 15 seconds), plus a program to analyse individual and class results and pinpoint misunderstandings. Each section starts with easier questions and moves through to higher-level questions, each question being read to the children twice. The photocopiable answer sheets include prompts to aid pupils' working memory.
