If you are familiar with CASPA’s Traffic Light Graph, you may have looked at the green, amber and red bands and wished you had known in advance how many pupils would appear in each band.
Good news – you can predict this before it becomes a fact (if pupils achieve their targets, that is).
Have you ever wondered where your CASPA data for last year’s leavers can be found? CASPA doesn’t delete older data; it just, by default, displays data, and analyses progress, for this year’s on-roll cohort. There will, however, be occasions where you will want to analyse progress for pupils who were on roll in a previous year and CASPA can easily enable you to, effectively, turn back the clock.
Enter baseline assessment results for your new intake during the autumn term and let CASPA manage these to give you full-year analysis. A baseline assessment for a new pupil may be part-way through the year and you can always use this in CASPA to understand whether that pupil appears to be on track to meet targets. However, to understand whether a pupil made expected progress across the whole year, you need to start with a result that reasonably represents where the pupil was at the end of the previous year. Read full article