on January 12, 2016
BBC News Education – Where children grow up in England is more likely to determine success or failure at school than in previous generations, a study suggests. The Social Market Foundation has examined test results of cohorts born in 1970 and 2000 and found regional differences have become much greater. TES News – Inequality in […]
Posted in Assessment Matters, Performance Data |
on December 18, 2015
GOV.UK – Technical and vocational qualifications for teaching from September 2016 and reporting in 2018 performance tables.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, Performance Data, Secondary |
on December 7, 2015 | updated December 11, 2015
GOV.UK – Report looking at whether pre-school and early home learning helps students gain more A levels. BBC News Education – Preschools turn children on to learning, says study.
Posted in Performance Data |
on December 6, 2015
GOV.UK – Guide for schools, colleges and local authorities on new measures for the 2016 performance tables.
Posted in Performance Data, Secondary |
on November 30, 2015
The Future Leaders Trust – This research paper explores the relationship between school performance and relative geographical isolation in England, defined as the straight-line distance to the next nearest secondary school. The research particularly looks at how this relates to the GCSE attainment of students in receipt of Free School Meals (FSM students). It establishes […]
Posted in Performance Data, Secondary |
on November 17, 2015
BBC News Education – Migrants ‘do not lower school results’. OECD – Can schools help to integrate immigrants?
Posted in Assessment Matters, International Comparisons, News, Performance Data |
on November 17, 2015
BBC News Education – This year’s GCSE results in England show few signs of a north-south divide getting any narrower. SchoolDash – This site provides Dashboards, Maps and other statistics about schools in England (with other UK nations to follow).
Posted in National Data, Performance Data, Secondary |
on November 17, 2015
The Sutton Trust – This report investigates patterns of academic attainment for different subgroups of a longitudinal sample of more than 3,000 students whose educational outcomes were studied across different phases of school and pre-school from age three to age 18.
Posted in National Data, Performance Data, Secondary |
on November 17, 2015
The Independent – Grammar schools do not boost social mobility and a new “tutor-proof” test has done nothing to stop children from wealthier backgrounds being coached to win places at selective schools, according to a new report. Local, Equal, Excellent – Who benefits? Buckinghamshire’s 11+ exam and outcomes for children.
Posted in Assessment Matters, Performance Data |
on November 6, 2015
GOV.UK – Research looking at different measures of socio-economic deprivation and their usefulness for providing funding to schools.
Posted in National Data, Performance Data |
on November 6, 2015
GOV.UK – Statistics on education and training in schools, further education and higher education across the UK.
Posted in National Data, Performance Data |
on October 16, 2015 | updated December 10, 2015
GOV.UK – Provisional statistics on the achievements of young people at the end of key stage 4 in England. Department for Education – provisional 2015 Key Stage 4 school performance tables.
Posted in National Data, Performance Data, Secondary |
on October 16, 2015
GOV.UK – Provisional information on 16- to 18-year-olds’ A level and other level 3 results at the end of their final year.
Posted in National Data, Performance Data, Secondary |
on October 13, 2015
Education Datalab – Secondary schools can now download the marks achieved by each of their new year 7 pupils in every question from the 2015 Key Stage 2 tests. Even better, this data can be imported into RAISEonline so that analysis of test performance can be undertaken for a year group, class or individual pupil broken down by […]
Posted in Performance Data, School Self-Evaluation |
on October 13, 2015 | updated November 19, 2015
GOV.UK – Early years foundation stage profile (EYFSP) results for the 2014 to 2015 academic year, at national and local authority level.
Posted in Early Years, National Data, Performance Data |