on September 17, 2015
BBC News Scotland – Scotland’s largest teachers’ union, the EIS, has warned that Scottish government plans for new assessments in schools are a “damaging, retrograde step”. So, could the disagreement lead to a boycott of the tests by teachers?
Posted in Assessment Matters, Assessment of Learning, Performance Data |
on September 11, 2015
TES News – Scottish government plans to collect national data on the percentage of children reaching expected levels in reading, writing and numeracy brings the possibility of school league tables much closer, it has been warned.
Posted in Assessment Matters, Assessment of Learning, News, Performance Data |
on September 9, 2015
RAISEonline – The 2014 inspection dashboard for primary and secondary schools and the 2014 validated Key Stage 5 reports are now available on the RAISEonline website.
Posted in Performance Data, Primary, School Self-Evaluation, Secondary |
on September 9, 2015
RAISEonline – Following our latest news item published on Tuesday 1 September, we have now uploaded an anonymised secondary report and sixth form PANDA to the RAISEonline library under the Inspection Dashboard and PANDA folder.
Posted in Performance Data, School Self-Evaluation, Secondary |
on September 9, 2015
GOV.UK – Information for schools about the Progress 8 measure to be introduced in 2016, along with the terms and conditions for opting in from 2015.
Posted in Performance Data, Secondary |
on September 2, 2015
RAISEonline – Ahead of the release of the new Inspection dashboard next month, we have updated the RAISEonline library with an anonymised report for a primary school.
Posted in Performance Data, Primary, School Self-Evaluation |
on August 28, 2015
TES News – Scores of schools offering the International Baccalaureate (IB) are raising serious concerns about the qualification after marks for entire cohorts plummeted by as much as 30 per cent this year, TES has learned.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, Performance Data, Secondary |
on August 25, 2015
RAISEonline – This briefing provides information about the proposed changes to RAISEonline for the release of 2015 unvalidated data. Further information on the developments will be provided in the autumn term.
Posted in Performance Data, Primary, School Self-Evaluation, Secondary |
on August 25, 2015
RAISEonline – RAISEonline unvalidated data release timetable.
Posted in Performance Data, Primary, School Self-Evaluation, Secondary |
on August 4, 2015 | updated September 9, 2015
GOV.UK – List of schools that have opted in early to the Progress 8 measure, a new secondary school accountability system (August 2015).
Posted in Performance Data, Secondary |
on July 20, 2015
DfE School Performance Tables – 2015 School and College Performance Tables Statement of Intent (July 2015). AAIA Facebook – Handy guide to the DfE ‘coasting school’ definition (KS2): 12 key thresholds – 7 of which we don’t yet know (courtesy of @hertsassessment).
Posted in Performance Data, School Self-Evaluation |
on July 20, 2015
RAISEonline – To support the new inspection arrangements from September 2015, we are developing an inspection dashboard. It will be provided through the RAISEonline website from mid-September.
Posted in Inspection guidance, Performance Data, School Self-Evaluation |
on July 14, 2015
Guardian Education – Does becoming an academy improve pupils’ Sats results? That is the implication of much of the debate coming from the Department for Education, as ministers seek to drive more primary schools, in particular, into academy status. But is this argument statistically valid? Ministers may need to rein in their oft-stated enthusiasm for the controversial phonics screening check […]
Posted in Performance Data, Primary, Statutory Assessment |
on June 10, 2015
TES News – Previously, the starting point for the primary value-added measures was the levels children were given in reading, writing and maths at age 7. Four years later, where will those children be? They were expected to have made two levels of progress – which around 90 per cent managed …. the new baseline test for primaries will stretch the forecast […]
Posted in Performance Data, Primary |
on April 23, 2015
Belfast Telegraph – Belfast Telegraph reveals today how NI schools scored in exam league tables.
Posted in National Data, Performance Data, Secondary |
