Unvalidated, validated and final data – another lesson learnt. August the results are in. Sept is a period of investigations and re-mark requests. October each school has the opportunity to check its data (ASCL Leadership of Data strongly recommended we do that). The data is then said to be validated. Final, well, final is final.
Therefore;
Unvalidated data do not reflect changes that may have been requested as part of the Achievement and Attainment Tables checking exercise (Late Sept / early Oct).
Validated data incorporates changes that have been requested and accepted as part of the ‘checking exercise.’ These will usually be the result of successful revisions and re-marks. If, however, the school was involved in a late appeal or an appeal was ongoing at the time of production of the data these changes may not be reflected.
Final data are released for Key Stage 4 once all changes and appeals have been processed and the KS4 database has been closed. Note that there is usually no final data release for Key Stage 2 in RAISEonline.
So, more three more enteries for the Data-glossary-for-school-improvement/ post.
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