What Stride can do for you

Stride is our powerful new on-screen diagnostic test to find and fix students’ maths gaps. Our revolutionary new adaptive tests identify what your learners don’t know and why, to help close gaps in their conceptual understanding, crucial for GCSE success.

Stride is:

  • personalised to give the right amount of challenge and boosts students' confidence
  • designed to allow you to quickly see whole year group performance and spot trends – saving you time
  • rigorously trialled and highly rated by students for nurturing independence, confidence, and maths understanding
  • fully-funded by AQA to help every student transform their maths learning.

How Stride can transform your teaching

Stride will provide the right data, analysis and insights for a clear view of your students' readiness to start studying GCSE. Questions are right for every learning, ensuring no learner is left behind.

Stride includes:

  • five 20-minute adaptive tests that pinpoint key concepts and skills for successful GCSE study
  • quick interventions that find and fix students gaps in knowledge
  • whole year group performance, trends and misconceptions for improved outcomes instantly
  • versatile insights for baseline or half-termly assessments, planning, interventions and personalised student targets
  • engaging diagnostics tests, preferred by learners over traditional assessments.

Personalised learning built in

Stride isn’t just for assessment and diagnostics, it’s a learning tool too. Personalised to give the right amount of challenge to each student, it will give:

  • a personalised learning task based on their test
  • light touch formative feedback and practice
  • a new learning task once completed
  • spaced retrieval tasks to make it stick.

Get into your stride

Stride is easy to implement in schools and user-friendly for both students and teachers. It’s accessible via all major web browsers and various devices.

With Stride, you can:

  • fit 20-minute tests easily into normal maths lessons
  • use for regular assessment of student progress
  • auto-mark, so you don’t have to worry about time spent marking
  • see your students’ performance and conceptual knowledge gaps via a dashboard
  • use in year 9 or 10 to build those foundational skills for GCSE, or at the beginning of the year 12 to assess your cohort for resits.

Discover Stride for yourself

Try out our revolutionary new adaptive tests today and see what your students will see.
Start a Stride demo

Take the next step towards the future of maths learning

It’s easy. Pre-register by giving us your details using the online form, and we’ll guide you through the rest. You’ll be able to access Stride from June onwards.

Register for Stride

Connect with us

Contact our team

Stride support team

Tel: 020 3107 4727

Email: stridemaths@aqa.org.uk

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