We know that for most CASPA users, this feels like the instinctively wrong thing to do. And don’t worry, we’re not removing any features from CASPA that allow you to compare your pupils against those they most meaningfully compare to (in fact, we are looking at doing more of this, not less). However, when it comes to inspections, you need to be prepared to consider progress using a variety of factors to meet the needs of Inspectors whilst also adequately portraying the real achievement of your pupils.
Topic: Features
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!
Do you have unverified targets?
Posted in Features, Managing DataNot sure? ‘Unverified’ targets are always displayed in a red font. They will be there only if the CASPA’s feature called ‘Generate expected outcome levels’ was used to help you with your target setting, but not all steps were completed.
It is our intention that target levels are only CASPA-generated and unverified for a short period – whilst you are target setting – and that by the end of your target setting, you will have changed most levels to add challenge, or if you decided the CASPA-expected level is about right for certain pupils, that you ‘verify’ that you want to use the CASPA-generated levels as targets.