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Topic: Features

Analysing attainment and progress for a previous year’s cohort

Posted in Analysing Attainment & Progress, Features

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.

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Key Stage reporting in CASPA

Posted in Analysing Attainment & Progress, Features

Schools need to be able to judge progress at many different levels – for individuals, groups of pupils and at the whole-schools level, and also over various periods of time – within a year, one years, more than one year, and across key stages.  Key stage reporting has always, and remains the mainstay of discussions with external agencies such as Ofsted, advisors and SIPs, plus Governing bodies.  Schools also want to compare progress against a range of expectations if possible, including CASPA’s benchmarking, levels, quartiles and compare actual progress and target progress against these benchmarks.

KS Reporting

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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!

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