In our previous articles, we looked at how Key Stage 1 and 2 Attainment and Key Stage 2 Progress is shown in the IDSR. In this article, we'll have a look at the Key Stage 2 progress and attainment Scatterplots or Scattergraphs are shown, and why.
Progress Scatterplots
In the scattergraphs there is:
Key Stage 1 Average Points Score going across, with a score of 12 to 17.99 representing your Middle Prior Attainers, and
Pupils' progress scores going up and down.
For example,
the pupil who is circled has a Key Stage 1 Average Point Score of 21 – that's level 3. For more details, please see our KS1 APS article.
This Level 3 pupil got a progress score of approximately minus 13.
This pupil, from the key at the bottom, is a non-disadvantaged boy who does not have SEN.
How can you read these scatterplots? We generally divide them into 4 sections:
The green section represents pupils who made much higher than expected...
This series of articles will be looking at Ofsted's Inspection Data Summary Report (IDSR).
In our series about the IDSR we had a look at how your school's Key Stage 2 Progress scores are shown in the IDSR in chart form, and the significance of your school's progress scores.
In this article, we'll have a look at the calculation.
Your pupil's Scaled Scores
In May, most of your pupils take exams in Reading, Writing and Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling. Their marks (also known as a "raw score") is then converted into a "scaled score" between 80 and 120, where 100 is a pass mark and 110 is a high score - the DfE decides after the exams how the scaled score conversion is to be done.
For the pupils that didn't take the test, then your Teacher Assessment is converted in a Scaled Score of between 59 to 79. In 2017 and 2018, the conversion was as follows:
Scaled scores P1i to P4 -...
This series of articles will be looking at Ofsted's Inspection Data Summary Report (IDSR).
In the previous article in this series, we had a look at how Key Stage 2 progress is represented in the IDSR.
We saw that:
The central dot represents your school's progress score, andThe line represents a calculation of the cohort's confidence interval.
In this article, we'll look at how Ofsted interprets this, and what significance it has to your school.
Key Stage 2 Progress Significance
So how do we interpret these shapes?
If the entirety of these shapes, the dot and the line, is to the right of the zero line, then your school is, in old money, significantly above average.If it is entirely to the left of the zero line, then you are significantly below average.If it even just touches the line, and you see that the Middle Prior Attainers just touches the line, then you are neither significantly above, nor significantly below – you are in line with...
In this series of articles, we'll be looking at Ofsted's Inspection Data Summary Report (IDSR).
In the previous article, we had a look at EYFSP Good Level of Development (GLD).
In this article, we'll have a look at the remainder of the EYFSP analyses, and a look at the Phonics analysis.
Early Years Foundation Stage Profile - ELGs
Following the EYFSP GLD analysis, the IDSR continues with the analysis of Reading ELG, Writing ELG and Mathematics ELGs.
Just as in the EYFSP Good Level of Development analysis:
The light blue bars represent the school's performance,The dark blue bars represent the school's performance for FSM pupils,The red lines represent the National Average for all pupils,The green lines represent the National Average for non-FSM pupils.
For answers to the questions as to why your FSM pupils' performance is compared with the National non-FSM performance, and what represents a small cohort, please see the early EYFSP analysis.
However, it is made more complicated by the fact that the assessment...
This series of articles will be looking at Ofsted's Inspection Data Summary Report (IDSR).
This article concentrates on the first of the EYFSP analyses, which is at the back of your IDSR report.
EYFSP (Early Years Foundation Stage Profile)
Good Level of Development (GLD) and ELGs (Early Learning Goals)
There are four different analyses in the EYFSP pages. The article relates to the percentage of pupils achieving a Good Level of Development (GLD). This is one of main measures in EYFSP.
What is a GLD? There are 17 Early Learning Goals (ELGs), and a pupil will obtain a GLD if they get Expected or Exceeding in the first 12, namely:
Communication and Language (Listening and attention, Understanding, and Speaking),Physical Development (Moving and handling, and Health and self-care),Personal, Social and Emotional Development (Self-confidence and self-awareness, Managing feelings and behaviour, and Making relationships),Literacy (Reading, and Writing), andMathematics (Numbers, and Shape, space and measures).
If a pupil got a single "Emerging" in one of these 12 ELGs, then the...