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Providing an on-the-day results service for schools Analysis, Insight Reports & InfographicsLocal & Regional GovernmentSchool Improvement

Providing an on-the-day results service for schools

Schools want comparative data as soon as the GCSE and A Level results are available. They want to understand how their results compare to other local schools. But it is not a straightforward process to get comparable data in such a tight timescale. We have provided an on-the-day results service for schools for the last 11 years and have some lessons to share on how to do it well. Introduction There is great interest in the performance of local schools on GCSE and A Level results days. Schools, the local authority, Councillors, parents and the press all want to know…
Steve Preston
August 21, 2019
What’s happened to Attainment 8 scores this year? Analysis, Insight Reports & InfographicsSchool Improvement

What’s happened to Attainment 8 scores this year?

Are you looking at Attainment 8 scores and wondering why the 2017 results are so much lower than 2016? The new GCSE grading structure means that Attainment 8 scores in 2017 will be lower than 2016 for the same performance. The overall impact of this nationally is to reduce the average points scored by over 11% or a reduction of approximately 5 points in Attainment 8 scores. To get a year-on-year comparison, 2016 results should be rebased using the 2017 scores. Background The Government introduced the revised GCSE grades to provide greater granularity in the higher grades. They wanted to…
Steve Preston
October 6, 2017
Primary school cohort at KS2 and KS4
Learning lessons on the performance of primary pupils through secondary education from longitudinal data Analysis, Insight Reports & InfographicsSchool Improvement

Learning lessons on the performance of primary pupils through secondary education from longitudinal data

Our work tracking a cohort of primary pupils through to A-levels or equivalent found that a primary school’s performance at Key Stage 2 (KS2) often does not equate to success of those pupils in their secondary school. To improve the life chances of their pupils, primary and secondary schools need to understand the combined impact of their education. Background to the review We have undertaken a review of longitudinal data from the National Pupil Database (NPD) in partnership with Southwark Council and the Southwark Teaching Schools Alliance (STSA). A number of Southwark primary schools wanted to understand their impact on…
Steve Preston
May 2, 2017
Level 3 transition matrices – 2015/16 Analysis, Insight Reports & InfographicsDashboards, Tableau & PowerBISchool ImprovementTableau Viz

Level 3 transition matrices – 2015/16

We have recently updated our popular Level 3 value-add visualisation, based on the latest DfE published data from 2016 results. The analysis shows pupil progress from average GCSE (and equivalent) prior attainment bands to different grades on Level 3 qualifications. The analysis spans A Levels, AS Levels and a wide range of other Level 3 academic and vocational qualifications, across a huge range of subjects. The interactive visualisation is available here.  Start by choosing the qualification and subject combination from the drop-downs on the left and the outcomes for that qualification are presented as stacked bar charts split out by…
Steve Preston
March 6, 2017
London funding changes
London loses in proposed schools funding formula Analysis, Insight Reports & InfographicsLocal & Regional Government

London loses in proposed schools funding formula

The Government are consulting on a new funding formula for schools. It will determine school budgets on a consistent basis nationally. The largest proportion of funding (72.5%) will be based on the number of pupils in a school. However, the new formula also recognises deprivation, low prior attainment of the pupils, pupils with English as an additional language, mobility, sparsity of population as well as some fixed running costs and adjustments for regional variation in costs. There is no new money attached to the proposals. The new formula distributes the same level of money in a different way creating winners…
Mime Org
February 10, 2017
London Key Stage performance 2012-2014
Understanding London’s performance at Key Stage 5 Analysis, Insight Reports & InfographicsLocal & Regional GovernmentMime Think PiecesSchool Improvement

Understanding London’s performance at Key Stage 5

At Key Stage 4, London is the top performing region for the key attainment and progress measures. By key stage 5, that position slipped to 5th and 6th out of 9 regions.  As part of our work on the GLA annual education report for 2015, we reviewed the underpinning data to understand the causes. We found 4 interesting facts: Lower prior attainment - London schools are more likely to accept lower performing Key Stage 4 pupils into post-16 provision, especially on vocational courses. Whilst these pupils go on to achieve a full level 3 qualification, they are less likely to…
Steve Preston
January 12, 2016
Transition matrices
Analysing progress from Key Stage 4 to Key Stage 5 Analysis, Insight Reports & InfographicsDashboards, Tableau & PowerBISchool ImprovementTableau Viz

Analysing progress from Key Stage 4 to Key Stage 5

As part of the Level 3 Value Add resources the Department for Education have released the Level 3 Transition Matrices for the Summer 2012 exam sitting. These are designed to show pupil progress from sub-levels of attainment at Key Stage 4 (GCSE or equivalent) to grade outcomes at Level 3 (A Level or equivalent) for a range of qualifications and subjects. We've presented this data interactively for you here. You start by choosing the qualification and subject combination from the drop-downs on the left and the grade outcomes pertaining to that qualification are presented as stacked bar charts split out…
Phil Rossiter
February 18, 2013
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Assessing children’s progress in primary schools Analysis, Insight Reports & InfographicsSchool Improvement

Assessing children’s progress in primary schools

Our Director, Steve, was recently invited by NFER to contribute to a group discussion on the strengths and weaknesses of the systems used to assess the progress of pupils in primary schools. Despite some flaws in the existing system, it was stressed that there is an important place for data and analysis when part of a national framework. However, it is unwise to look solely at attainment figures as this fails to account for the starting abilities of children in some areas and the idea that progress should play a central role in this data analysis is clearly important. Steve…
Steve Preston
January 17, 2013
London SEN mapping tool
London SEN provider interactive map Analysis, Insight Reports & InfographicsDashboards, Tableau & PowerBILocal & Regional GovernmentSchool ImprovementTableau Viz

London SEN provider interactive map

We have created an interactive map of secondary schools and other institutions which deliver SEN provision in London. The tool has been built in Tableau so you can choose options such as selecting a particular type of SEN provision or selecting just a particular local authority. This was produced for London Councils are part of our LLDD (learners with learning difficulties or disabilities) Forecasting Project. Click here for our case study on this project. You can explore providers by local authority interactively in the tool here.
Phil Rossiter
December 13, 2012

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