Head teachers conference

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Head teachers conference

• Use of the collected data to inform
  self-evaluation and inspection

Colin Evans HMI
Sept 2006
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Context (1)

• Data collection will help establish
• consistent measurement and reporting of success,
  pass and retention rates (S, P and R) across
  school sixth forms, sixth form colleges and FE
  colleges
• national averages for the 50th, 25th, and 75th
  percentile colleges, for similar types of provider

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Context (2)

• The new measures
• Are additional to existing PIs
• Provide new information about sixth form
  provision
• Have been used in sixth form and FE colleges for
  a decade
• Enable additional analysis to help schools,
  potential learners, the funding council and the
  inspectorate

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New measures add to existing performance
indicators already used in school sixth formseg.

• DfES performance tables
• Learner level information from DfES performance
  tables
• Sixth form Panda
• Pass rates against subject entries
• APS per entry by qualification type
• Value added scores

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Definitions

• Success rate no of quals fully achieved
• number started
• Retention rate no of learners completed
• no of learners who started the qual
• Pass rate no of quals fully achieved
• no of quals completed
• Definitions are based on qualifications not
  learners
• Number started excludes transfers out

Sept 2006
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PIs used in sixth form colleges (1)

• S, R and P broken down by various categories
• Age (16-18 and 19 )
• Subject sector area (SSA)
• Qualification type and individual qualification
• Highest and lowest performing qualifications
• Level and age aggregation of success rates

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PIs used in sixth form colleges (2)

• High grade pass rates
• Value added (New measures of success (NMS))
• Distance travelled data for non-graded
  qualifications
• Chances charts
• Learner level performance charts

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National averages

• Are available for each provider type (sixth form
  college, FE college, colleges recruiting high
  levels of disadvantaged students)

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Examples of reports provided to colleges
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The Summary college performance report (CPR)

• Contains a summary of context and performance
  information, including
• Learner, enrolment and FTE numbers
• Success, retention and achievement rates
  including a highlights list of the top and
  bottom performing individual qualifications
• Value-added and distance-travelled data again,
  including a highlights list of individual
  qualifications

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S, R and P for 16-18 year olds on all long
courses (exc key skills) 2004/5
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Success rates all long courses

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The Interactive CPR

• Provides detailed success, retention and pass
  rate data
• accessible via an easy to use, interactive,
  excel workbook
• allows easy to pursue lines of enquiry through
  hot picks functionality
• Provides the ability to toggle between national
  benchmarks

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The Interactive CPR example content (2)
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The Interactive CPR

• Demonstration