In general terms, ‘out of range’ refers to results for which a statistically meaningful comparison cannot be made. It is all about CASPA taking its responsibilities about comparisons seriously; you will not find CASPA comparing your pupils against a data sample of just one, or even a few dozen pupils!
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Spotlight on… Targets vs actuals analysis
Posted in Analysing Attainment & Progress
Did your pupils meet their targets… or perhaps exceed them? Or did some fail to achieve certain targets? Were the targets sufficiently challenging, and how might this influence target setting next year?.
All of these are important questions, and they can all be answered with minimal effort by using carefully focused reports in CASPA, whether you are pin-pointing a certain pupil, or all pupils for a specific subject, class, etc.
The Traffic Light graph… with bells and whistles
Posted in Analysing Attainment & Progress, Features
The ‘Comparison of progress vs expectations’ graph is probably in the majority of users’ top two CASPA reports and graphs. So it is not surprising that we receive a lot of feedback on things that users would love to see added to it’s features.
These have been pretty complicated to develop, but we have enhanced this graph to include most of these in ways that we think will exceed your expectations!