CASPA’s output is used by a wide variety of people. This article focuses on how CASPA can help Governors in response to questions posed to us by school senior leadership teams and by Governors themselves.
It is unlikely that Governors will use CASPA directly, but Head Teachers need to be able to articulate achievement effectively and back this up with evidence. From the Governors’ perspective, it is crucial that they can understand and challenge Head Teachers on achievement.
So you have set targets and recorded them in CASPA. But how have you satisfied yourself that the targets are going to be appropriate for the pupil; challenging and realistic, and that for the whole school, they are going to reflect ambition.
You can use CASPA to help you gain confidence in your targets as soon as they are recorded…
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!