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Topic: Managing Data

Baseline assessment results

Posted in Analysing Attainment & Progress, Managing Data

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

CASPA health check

Posted in Managing Data

Healthcheck2013aA feature is available in CASPA that allows you to carry out a health check on your data in CASPA.  This is useful at any time but is especially so as you lead up to key events throughout the year such as end of year reporting and exporting data.

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Checking the quality of your data

Posted in Managing Data

As soon as you’ve entered your summer term results, you’ll want to analyse attainment and progress.  It is also important that you export your data to be included in the update to CASPA’s comparative data set before the summer holidays.

But before you leap, you’ll want to have confidence in your analysis and the data you export, so why not give the data you enter a health check using tools that CASPA has to help you with this.

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