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Inspection dashboard and Key Stage 5 reports now available in RAISEonline

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.

Anonymised Inspection dashboard report for secondary school and sixth form PANDA available in the RAISEonline Library

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.

Anonymised Inspection dashboard report available in the RAISEonline Library

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.

RAISEonline proposed 2015/16 developments

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.

RAISEonline unvalidated data release timetable

RAISEonline – RAISEonline unvalidated data release timetable.

2015 School and College Performance Tables Statement of Intent (July 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).

New inspection dashboard

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.

Progress 8 school performance measure – updated 25 August 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 (updated 26 August 2015).

Scrap floor targets and replace with ‘more ambitious’ goals, says heads’ union

TES News – Government-imposed floor targets should be replaced by “more ambitious” goals set by schools themselves, according to the country’s biggest heads’ union.

School Data Dashboard Update

Ofsted – For Key Stages 1 and 2, the School Data Dashboard has been updated with 2013 results on Thursday 6th March 2014. For Key Stage 4, the School Data Dashboard will be updated in April 2014 when school performance data are final and not subject to change.

2013 Key Stage 4 unvalidated data now available

RAISEonline – The interactive reports for schools with 2013 Key Stage 4 unvalidated data and absence data are now available in RAISEonline. The Key Stage 4 summary report will be available by late evening of Monday 2 December 2013.

Reforming the accountability system for secondary schools

GOV.UK – Minister of State for Schools David Laws makes an announcement on school accountability. BBC News Education – School league tables widen to eight subjects.

Small authority shows sizeable improvements

TES Scotland article – One of Scotland’s smallest education authorities is making a virtue of its size by running a raising attainment programme in which secondary heads inspect each other’s exam results and strategies for improvement.

Schools can measure themselves against Pisa tests

BBC News Education – Individual schools are going to be able to take international tests for the first time to see how they compare with the world’s best school systems.

End or explain ‘misleading’ league tables, colleges plead

TES article – Colleges are calling for “misleading” new post-16 league tables to be stripped from the list of official statistics unless parents and students are given a guide on how to interpret them.