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The research collects feedback during product development through virtual focus groups and post-test surveys, assessing engagement, perceived usefulness of diagnostic results, and how the adaptive engine tailors items to learners’ proficiency. Quantitative work also examines the validity and reliability of the diagnostic tests. Findings indicate most students viewed participation positively, found revision focus benefits, and considered the tests engaging and appropriately challenging.","Investigating students’ experiences of piloting Stride  \nJeanne Marie Ryan, Research Fellow, AQA Handan Lu, Researcher, AQA  \nExecutive summary  \nStride is AQA’s new adaptive assessment, providing diagnostic tests to help students prepare for  \nGCSE Maths .  \nThe objective of this study was to gather feedback from students about their experiences of trialling Stride’s diagnostic tests during the product’s development phases. The mixed-methods research featured focus groups and surveys with students who took part in the testing periods. This study accompanied quantitative research that explored the validity and reliability of the tests.1  \nFocus groups and surveys were designed to gather feedback about student levels of engagement, their experience of how the adaptive engine tailored items to their proficiency levels, and their thoughts about how useful the results from the diagnostic tests would be for their learning and revision.  \n1 Investigating the validity and reliability of Stride’s  diagnostic tests  \nFindings from this study show that the majority of students:  \n• found taking part in the tests to be a positive experience  \n• confirmed that tests and their results would help them focus their revision  \n• thought that the tests were engaging and appropriately challenging due to the way the tests adapted to their proficiency levels.  \nIntroduction  \nMany students aged 11 to 16 years struggle to make progress in maths. A student who has difficulty getting to grips with arithmetic in primary school will often goon to struggle with solving equations in secondary school.  \nStride is a set of diagnostic tests that will help to quickly identify gaps in a student’s understanding of fundamental maths concepts. Stride also provides students with personalised learning content based on their results. This immediate feedback enables maths teachers to provide more targeted support to their students and allows students to guide their own revision strategies more accurately.  \nEach test is underpinned by one of five key concepts: numbers, algebra, proportions, graphs, and shapes.  \nResearch was carried out to evaluate how well these key concepts align with maths teachers’ pedagogical practice and students’learning and understanding. Once the tests had been piloted in schools across the country, quantitative research analysed the validity and reliability of the tests, anda qualitative strand of research gathered  \nand analysed data on user feedback relating to the Stride platform and its use in the classroom. This qualitative data, which was collected via focus groups and surveys with students, was used to inform the development of the product and any necessary modifications.  \nThe research was conducted in two phases:  \n• Phase 1 – autumn/winter 2022  \n• Phase 2 – spring/summer and autumn/ winter 2023.  \nThis phased approach enabled iterative development by integrating user feedback at each stage.  \n© 2024 AQA 2  \nMethods  \nA combination of virtual focus groups and post-test surveys were used to gather feedback from students regarding their experience of taking the diagnostic tests. Focus groups provided granular feedback about students’ experiences, which allowed for improvements to be implemented throughout the course of the research; post-test surveys generated a large amount of data to ascertain whether students found the test experience positive and useful for their learning.  \nFocus groups  \nParticipant recruitment and data collection  \nConvenience sampling was used to select schools in which virtual focus groups would be held; consequently, the sample was not representative of the entire country. Eighteen schools (including 93 students) from different regions in England were identified for participation in the focus groups; however, there was an overrepresentation of schools from the South East. 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