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Mr G Vyse FFT RAISEonline How can FFT RAISE
help schools improve?
To aspire to the very highest standards, to
achieve to the best of our ability and to excel
in all that we do
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FFT Fischer Family Trust
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The Hundred of Hoo Academy A member of The
Williamson Trust

• Background to the Fischer Family Trust (FFT)
• Independent charity, founded by Mike Fischer,
  co-founder of Research Machines (RM). FFT
  supports projects in health and education
• Education Projects include the data analysis
  project managed by Mike Treadaway, using national
  data sets provided by DfE and Welsh Assembly
  Government
• Aim is to help schools make effective use of
  value-added test and TA data to raise individual
  pupil attainment and improve progress
• Analyses are provided to support effective school
  self-evaluation
• Data provides questions not answers
• Data analysis should be used by schools to
  promote discussion, evaluation and planning
• Analyses for different groups of pupils, and a
  range of indicators, to help identify strengths
  or areas for development/intervention
• Use the past to inform the future

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• What is FFT Live 3.2?
• FFT Live 3.2 is FFTs online reporting system
  giving Schools and LAs online access to a range
  of FFT data and reports to support target setting
  and self evaluation
• The reports are based on similar methodologies
  and models used in the standard database reports
• FFT Live 3.2 gives users access to a greater
  range of reports than the previous version of FFT
  Live and also includes a number of reports which
  are only available online

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• Who is FFT Live 3.2 aimed at?
• FFT Live includes a broad range of reports to
  support target setting and self evaluation and
  can be used by a wide variety of staff in school
• Teachers, Department Heads and Heads of Year will
  find the new pupil/subject estimates and value
  added information particularly useful in helping
  to review progress and set challenging targets.
• SLTs can now access a greater range of strategic
  data to support whole school and group evaluation
  and target setting
• School governors can also access school level
  data to support SLTs in evaluation and planning
• LA staff including advisers, information teams
  and senior managers.

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• Why use FFT Live?
• Allows quicker access to a wide range of FFT
  reports and data for school and LA Staff
• Allows access to pupil, group and school data to
  support target setting and self evaluation
• Some reports (e.g pupil estimates showing a range
  of probabilities) are only available on FFT Live
• Greater level of flexibility allowing users to
  choose their own options
• Allows users to export data directly from FFT
  Live
• Gives access to Self Evaluation booklets
• Online guidance available for individual reports

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• How do I log-in to FFT Live 3.2?
• Web address is www.fftlive.org
• There are 2 way to log-in to FFT Live
• SCHOOL ADMIN account supplied by LA max 2 per
  school.
• SCHOOL USER account can view data but cannot
  create user accounts or amend data

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• The suite of Student Explorer reports give users
  access to a comprehensive set of background data
  on pupil characteristics and can be used in a
  variety of contexts including identifying support
  needs, one-to-one tuition, ethnic minority
  achievement and narrowing the gap.
• The report allow school and Las to recognise
  pupil potential as well as the risk of
  underachievement.

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• A range of reports which allow LAs and schools to
  view value added and estimates data for a group
  of schools
• The reports include both individual school data
  (to support the sharing of best practice across
  schools) and aggregated group data (to support
  joint school/area working).
• LA Administrators to create their own school
  groups and provide access to LA users and/or
  School users

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• A new export section has been added to FFT Live,
  giving users direct access to a range of
  pre-defined and user-specific export reports.
• The reports allow users to export pupil and
  school estimates data currently available in a
  number of key FFT Live reports
• The new module makes it easier to export data
  into school MI systems

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• This new section replaces the old Development
  Reports area on the FFT Live main menu
• It includes new ideas, enhancements and
  developments on FFT Live
• Examples of reports currently include in the
  development area are KS2 (Other Foundation
  Subjects) School and Pupil Estimates.

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• This new section will allow users to view and
  access a range of information to ensure that
  they get the most out of FFT Live. The new
  section includes
• FFT Live timetable
• News
• Information on new developments
• Training
• Further help and support on FFT Live
• Any other FFT related information which maybe of
  use to LAs and schools

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• This is the main area for accessing all your FFT
  Live reports. It includes all the standard FFT
  Live reports to support self evaluation and
  target setting.
• Value added report can be found on the left-hand
  side of the screen whilst Estimate reports can be
  found on the right-hand side of the screen.

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Using FFT Live for school self evaluation
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• What is Value Added?
• Basic Value Added (VA) measures the PROGRESS made
  by an individual pupil, or group of pupils,
  between Key Stage 2/3 (the starting point) and
  Key Stage 3/4 (the end point).
• Basic VA compares the progress made by each pupil
  with the average progress made by similar
  pupils, defined by FFT as pupils with similar
  prior attainment, gender and month of birth.
• Contextual Value Added, or CVA, is a version of
  VA which also takes into account school context
  factors and individual pupil context factors
• VA or CVA can be calculated for individual
  pupils, groups of pupils or for a whole school.
• Group or school level VA scores are simply based
  on the average of individual pupil VA scores.

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2 basic models are used in FFT Live

• Model PA (Prior Attainment) - Value Added

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Pupil Factors PA SX
Mean Test Level (where available) ? ?
Mean TA Level ? ?
Subject Variations ? ?
Gender ? ?
Month of Birth ? ?
EAL ?
FSM ?
SEN Stage, Statemented ?
Ethnicity ?
Mobility (joined late / time in school) ?
School Factors PA SX
Mean Intake Test Level ?
Spread of Intake Test Level ?
FSM Entitlement (Percentile Rank) ?
Geodemographic Data (Percentile Rank) ?
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Using FFT Live for Target Setting
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• For pupils, we know that in general
• KS3/4 attainment is highly dependent on
  attainment at KS2/3
• Girls make different progress than boys
• Autumn born pupils have higher attainment than
  Summer born pupils
• Pupils prior-attainment in English often has a
  greater impact on subsequent progress
• But we also know that School Context has an
  impact on pupil progress
• Pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds tend to
  make less progress (geodemographic data)
• Prior attainment for the cohort can have an
  impact on future achievement

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There are 2 basic types of estimates

• PA - Type A (estimate based on similar pupils
  nationally)

• SE - Types B (50th percentile) and D (25th
  percentile) (estimates based on similar pupils
  AND school context)

Gender
Prior Attainment
Month of Birth
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Estimate
Attainment
Year 6
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Raise Online
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• Q What is Raise Online?
• RAISEonline is a secure web-based system that
  provide schools, local authorities and inspectors
  with a range of analyses including
• Attainment at the end of Key Stage 4
• Progress from Key Stage 2 to 4
• Absence and exclusion
• The Characteristics (often refereed to as
  context) of pupils

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• Q What is Raise for?
• It is an important source of data for schools to
  use in self-evaluation
• The analyses are used by Inspector in their
  pre-inspection briefings.

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• Q How do we gain access to RAISEonline?
• Data is presented in a range of interactive
  tables and charts which can be viewed online.
• Each school has an Administrator who is
  responsible for generating Usernames and
  Passwords.
• Governors can be added as users, but are unable
  to view data for individual pupils.
• A Summary Report can be printed for a hard copy
  of all data (this was previously know as the Full
  Report)

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• Q How often is RAISEonline up-dated?
• The data is up-dated several times a year
• In 2011 Key Stage 4 data was made available on
  6th December as unvalidated
• In January it was up-dated with Validated data,
  as a result of schools completing their checking
  exercises.

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• Q What questions should I be asking of the data?
• How does attainment and progress at my school
  compare to national averages and the Governments
  floor standards?
• Do we have any under-performing groups of pupils?
• How might the context of our school affect our
  performance?
• Are we relatively stronger or weaker in some
  subjects compared to others?
• How does pupil attendance compare to national
  averages?

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How does attainment at my school compare to
national averages?
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How does attainment at my school compare to the
Governments floor standards?
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Do we have any under-performing groups of pupils,
or are there wide gaps in attainment between some
groups of pupils?
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How might the context of our school affect our
performance?
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Are we relatively stronger or weaker in some
subjects compared to others?
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The English Baccalaureate
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Attainment by Subject
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Relative Performance Indicator (RPI)
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How does pupil attendance compare to national
averages?
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