Use of Data by LAs and Schools

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Use of Data by LAs and Schools

• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Target Setting
• Was Top Down
• Now Bottom Up
• LA Targets still monitored
• Achievement and Attainment Tables
• Ofsted PANDA
• LA Monitoring meetings with the Department

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Use of Data by LAs and Schools

• Sources of Data
• FSP and KS1 LAs are Data Collectors
• All now TA data
• KS1 tests used by schools to inform targets
• Agreement in some LAs to continue to collect test
  results
• Key Stage 2 and 3 Test and TA data
• CD 1-4 historically provided by QCA
• Similar but expanded data now from Key to Success
• Initially only Datafeed 4 in August (CD2)
• More recently, for KS2, Datafeed 2 and 3 in July
• KS4 and KS5
• Traditionally this provided to LAs by NCER
• All of the above refers to named, pupil level data

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Use of Data by LAs and Schools

• Sources of Data
• Question or Item level data
• KS3 English provided by NAA at item level
• Increasing number of LAs collect KS2 scripts and
  produce item level files for their schools
• Arguable the only data that genuinely can inform
  teaching and learning
• Most schools use QCA Optional tests
  Y03,04,05,06,07 and 08
• Here too LAs provide marking service
• Pupil Achievement Tracker, PAT, provides facility
  to compare graphically against national data
  (sample data for Optional tests)

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Use of Data by LAs and Schools

• Sources of Data
• Processed data
• AA Tables files, including Checking Files
• PANDA same as Tables but with particular
  comparative presentation
• Both now include CVA measures
• Fischer Family Trust estimates and actuals - NOT
  predictions!
• All LAs now subscribe to this project
• Receive data for all their maintained schools
• Distributed to schools, with varying degrees of
  explanation/intervention, and in various formats
• Used to inform Target setting
• Uses different CVA model

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Use of Data by LAs and Schools

• Analysis Tools LAs
• KS4 and 5
• EPAS provided by NCER
• Various analyses used internally and distributed
  to schools
• Subject Difference analyses particularly valued
  by headteachers for KS4
• KS1, 2 and 3
• Various systems used
• Some functionality in commercial LA MIS systems
• Home grown systems from Excel and Access to more
  sophisticated databases, some of which utilise
  xml
• Keypas provided by NCER
• All produce range of school level analyses,
  including 5 year trend lines
• Most LAs provide range of analyses from these
  systems to their schools
• Form agenda for School Improvement officer
  meetings with schools

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Use of Data by LAs and Schools

• Analyses Tools LAs
• PAT many LAs have set up PAT with all of their
  schools files loaded
• Data loaded locally
• RAISEonline
• Data loaded centrally
• Schools can load locally to own area
• No upward link to the central system

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Use of Data by LAs and Schools

• Sources of Data Schools
• KS4 and 5 results available electronically
• Return of KS2 and 3 paper scripts and copies of
  marksheets
• Files provided by the LA
• CTF, Common Transfer Files, from previous
  school!!
• Schools recently provided with access to KtS
• Initially restricted to PAT compatible files,
  including KS3 English item level
• Can now search national files with caveats
• FFT data from LAs
• AA Tables files paper and web based
• PANDA web based downloads
• PANDA being replaced by RAISEonline

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Use of Data by LAs and Schools

• Analysis of Data Schools
• All maintained schools have MIS, Management
  Information System
• All have assessment modules that are increasingly
  comprehensive
• Include national comparative data
• Use of these varies considerably
• FSP e profile
• Provided by Department for recording, analysing
  and producing Foundation Stage reports
• PAT
• Includes various graphical outputs
• Produces reports
• Has target setting facility
• RAISEonline to offer similar functionality
• http//www.keytosuccess.dfes.gov.uk