Secondary Accountability Measures 2022
Originally posted as a LinkedIn article, this looks at the publication of the 2022 Secondary accountability measures. The first such results published for 3 years.
2022 GCSE Exam Results (Data Trends)
This post was written as part of my day job for Community Brands / Assembly: https://assembly.education/exam-results-2022/. Introduction Last week saw GCSE/BTEC results published to join the A-Level results. Today’s news summary rounds up links to in-depth analysis from around the sector. A-Levels Recap The CAGs and TAGs process through 2020 and 2021 saw huge grade inflation…
How to Analyse Your School Exam Results (Data Trends)
Originally published for Assembly Data Trends series: https://assembly.education/how-to-analyse-exam-results/ It’s been three whole years since we’ve had exam results in England, and what three years it has been! This issue of Data Trends provides 7 top tips on how to analyse and report on your school or MAT exam results this Summer, from our former Vice…
A-Level Results 2022 – Regional Analysis
Originally posted as an article on LinkedIn this post analyses the first release of A-Level results in August 2022, with some evidence of Covid related differences.
Covid lost learning quantified
The first genuine pandemic affected exam results are in, as schools (belatedly – well done Capita!) received their KS2 SATs results today. And perhaps unsurprisingly the impact of the lost learning of the past 3 years is clear. There have been significant drops in the proportion of 11 year olds meeting expected standards in Maths…
Failing Our Most Vulnerable – Thoughts on FFT Repeat Suspensions & Exclusions Report
FFT have just published an analysis of repeat suspensions and exclusions across the life of students who started primary school in 2008 & 2009. The headline news is that both suspensions and exclusions are heavily weighted towards certain ethnic groups, those of the different Black, Gypsy/Roma & Irish heritage are around twice as likely to have been…
How To Act On Uncertainty: Agile Data-Driven Leadership (Data Trends)
Education is awash with data. League tables and accountability measures have driven an obsession with headline figures, KPIs and metrics. The associated data collection, presentation and analysis processes consume time throughout the system. Do we collect too much data? Do we wait too long to act upon it? This post is the third of our Challenges…
How To Monitor & Improve Attendance In Covid Times (Data Trends)
This post was written as part of my day job for Community Brands / Assembly: https://assembly.education/monitoring-improving-attendance/. The Attendance Challenge There is no bigger challenge in school leadership in 2022 than monitoring and improving school attendance. Despite the incredible progress in remote learning, we know students achieve best when taught face-to-face by subject specialists. During the…
Can an Ofsted inspection be a positive school improvement experience?
A positive Ofsted school improvement experience — credit where it’s due 4 min read There have been enough Ofsted scare stories to last a lifetime, and the perverse effect they can have on schools are well known. But sometimes credit should be given where it’s due, so here is a tale of a supportive and constructive Ofsted visit…
9 Ways to Turn Around a Failing School — Sir William Atkinson
9 Ways to Turn Around a Failing School — Sir William Atkinson 2 min read I had the pleasure of seeing Sir William Atkinson close the GL-Assessment Conference on Friday. He’s an incredible character, responsible for turning around ‘the worst school in England’. He regaled that tale to us, reflecting on the 10 years it took to…