The data debate
Yesterday afternoon, I raced out of school at 3:55 to make it home with just enough time to make a cup of tea and rev up the PC, in preparation for “The data debate: the use and future of data in …
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Progress measures – less is more?
Even more of the progress measures… as communicated by Bill Watkin, Operational Director, SSAT. As you may or may not already know. The ’empty boxes’ will count as zero. That is students who sat fewer than eight of the required qualifications will receive a zero …
Best 8 – performance tables
In case you did not know Schools currently improve their league table position if pupils move over the C/D borderline. This gives schools a huge incentive to focus excessively on the small number of pupils around the 5 Cs borderline. …
Value Added
I have covered the basics of transition matrices before though I raise it again because to make valid assertions as to school and Department performance comparisons, we must take into account the ability profile in each subject in our schools …
Drive by data – change
This term, my data colleague and I have been working hard on a new, more transparent student estimates and staff estimates system. Made more diffificult by high student mobility and numerous boarding students without KS2 data. Now before we go on, student …
ASCL Leadership of Data Conference Feedback
I was very pleased to receive the ASCL delegate feedback today. Of the ten delegates that attended my ‘New to the data’ role, 6 rated the session as excellent, 3 good and 1 average. The comments really made me feel …
Leadership of Data ’13
Whether you are a data advocate or not – there is no hiding from the growing importance of school data. If you are an aspiring school leader, data know-how and data know-why are definitely catalysts for professional recognition. If you …
Driven by data – Action
It’s not about giving the assessments; it’s about doing something about the results. Doug Reeves (2005) Given we have assessed effectively, that is, teachers at least saw the assessment or preferably were part of the assessment design process. That teachers …