Data Management

Summary

Data management is a key strand to school effectiveness.  It can provide answers to important questions regarding areas for continuous improvement.  A detailed analysis of significant information can be particularly beneficial when it is used in conjunction with teachers' pedagogic skills.  It can be a catalyst for change, used to develop and implement individual student programmes and targets. 

RAISEonline

RAISEonline is the new web based system to disseminate school performance data which has replaced the Ofsted Performance and Assessment (PANDA) reports and the Pupil Achievement Tracker (PAT).  For more details, including the full range of analyses available please click on the following links:

RAISEonline  

Ofsted RAISEonline

Data Management Guide

Smoking Out Underachievement (September 2004)

This booklet prepared by the Fischer Family Trust working with the School Challenge and Improvement Division has been written to provide schools with guidance, advice and examples to increase their understanding and use of 'value added' data.

This approach to the use of data will enable schools to become information as well as data, rich. The guidance seeks to support professionals in knowing their pupils better and in the development of an accountabilty framework which puts more emphasis on pupil progress. Value added approaches contribute to our knowledge and understanding of between school variation, within school subject variation, within group variation and performance at an individual pupil level. 

These approaches will provide a rich variety of benchmarks to aid and moderate self review and evaluation and will undoubtedly support the identification of aspects of practice where collaboration with other schools would prove beneficial.

Above all the use of this form of data and analysis will enable schools to know their pupils, know how well they are meeting their needs, their successes and to 'smoke out underachievement' in more illuminative ways.

The booklet is available to download in PDF  ( 1.1 Mb)

Last updated 17 May 2008