Contextualised attainment at Key Stage 2
Including details of a new report available in FFT Aspire
Provisional KS2 data 2018: Key points from today’s release
Analysis of national and local authority-level KS2 data published today.
Value added measures in performance tables: A recap of the main issues for primary schools
Announcing a new report for primary schools that gives a different way of looking at value added.
Why do pupils who went to infant and first schools appear to underperform at Key Stage 4?
Is it real underperformance, or something else? The Datalab team take a look at the issue.
KS2 performance tables 2017: The reason schools ended up below the floor standard this year
Key Stage 2 league tables – performance tables, to use their proper name – have been published this morning, identifying those schools below the government’s floor standard, and those judged to be coasting. So what can we say about the schools in these two groups? And are junior schools still more likely to fall into [...]
KS2 performance tables 2016: Do we need value added at Key Stage 2?
Value added data, calculated by a number of different methods over the years, has been a feature of school performance tables since 2003. In principle, the idea is sound. Comparisons of schools’ raw attainment measures often say more about schools’ intakes than they do about the quality of teaching and learning. So if the state [...]
KS2 performance tables 2016: What can we tell about the new floor standards?
Final Key Stage 2 data has been published this morning, with 665 primary schools identified as being below the floor standards, compared to 676 last year. In line with the move to scaled scores, the way floor standards are calculated changed this year. Schools were judged as being below the floor standard if they failed [...]
Education Datalab’s view on primary assessment
We recently submitted evidence to the Education Select Committee, as part of their inquiry into primary assessment. What follows is the text of our submission. A PDF copy of the submission can be found here. The role of statutory assessment in primary schools Assessment plays numerous roles in primary education. Statutory assessment should, as a minimum, ensure [...]
Should KS2 floor standards be based on an overall value added score?
From this year, the secondary school accountability framework will be predominately based around a single value added measure, Progress 8, although a small number of headline attainment indicators will be published alongside it. However, there is no single equivalent measure for primary schools. Three value added (VA) measures have been calculated in reading, writing and maths. [...]