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How inspectors use data before and
during school inspections in England
Chris Wood
Her Majesty’s Inspector
November 2013
Inspectors use a range of data before
and during the inspection
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RAISEonline
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New and innovative products are being developed all the time: e.g.
Data View; forthcoming dashboards for Special Schools and Further
Education & Skills providers
Sixth Form PANDA
Parent View
The School Data Dashboard (with governors)
Optional questionnaire for staff
Similar products exist for Further Education & Skills: e.g. Learner
View
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RAISEonline
RAISEonline is prominent data tool for
schools and inspectors…it is a starting
point for self evaluation and inspection
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RAISEonline is an on-line data tool that was introduced in 2006.
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It provides a common set of analyses for schools, local authorities, governors
and inspectors.
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Schools make considerable use of ROL when completing self-evaluation. They
also have access to interactive and pupil level data.
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Inspectors make considerable use of ROL prior to and during inspections.
Ofsted is responsible for the system but uses a private company to help with its
day to day running; Pupil data is provided by the Department for Education but
Ofsted calculates all of the indicators.
Ofsted are building a new system which will allow much more data to be made
available to the public; it aims to get this data released as close to the start of
the school term as possible.
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RAISEonline provides schools and inspectors
with comprehensive information at cohort,
group and pupil level:
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A school’s contextual information (compared to other schools nationally)
Census ward information (where pupils live)
Ethnic groups and English as an additional language
Absence and exclusions
Pupils’ prior attainment
Pupils’ end of key stage attainment (age 7, 11 or 16)
Attainment in different subjects
Value added and expected progress measures
Narrowing the gap with the Pupil Premium
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The big picture: inspectors can quickly see what
type of school it is and how it compares with
typical schools nationally…
Size
Gender
Free School Meals
Ethnicity
Language
SEN
Pupil movement
Deprivation
e.g. This school has
lower than average
proportions of
disadvantaged pupils
but higher proportions
at School Action + and
with a statement of
educational needs –
something to explore?
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Inspectors can see how trends in the
attendance of pupils at the school compares
with the national picture overall….
Attendance
feeds into the
judgement on
‘behaviour and
safety’
Data is
provided for
overall levels of
absence and
for proportions
of pupils who
miss school
regularly
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…but also at group level…so that any
differences within the school or against
the national picture can be identified
Similar detailed
information is
available for fixed
term and
permanent
exclusions
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Benchmark attainment data over time
allows inspectors to see school trends and
compare with changes at the national level
One school
has improved
…but at a
slower rate
than other
schools
nationally
Students'
attainment is
now much
lower than
average in
the other
school
These are
important
trails…
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Inspectors can also dig deeper into trends
or variations in average points
attainment for core subjects…
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…and to compare
the attainment of
different groups
of pupils in key
areas
Attainment in maths looks
weaker than in English –
what has the school done
about this? What impact
have they had?
Most groups in English
appear to perform at a
level similar to the
average - but middle
ability pupils seem to do
particularly well.
Why is this? Are there
lessons to be learnt?
Has this been
maintained?
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Inspectors can see
how much value
the school adds to
pupils in different
subject by the time
they reach the end of
a key stage - here at
KS4
VA in English, maths and
humanities looks very
broadly average but is
weaker in science and
languages.
Does this link to the quality
of teaching in those subjects
or are there issues with the
curriculum? Why does
science look weak?
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And how much value the school adds to
different groups of pupils, compared to
similar pupils and all pupils nationally
Inspectors take
particular care
when interpreting
data about small
groups.
This can be a
particular issue in
small primary
schools.
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Pupils are expected to make two levels of
progress between KS1 and KS2…
The progress tables
provide information on
whole level and sub
level progress
They are available for
English and
mathematics
At KS2 there are also
separate tables for
reading and writing
Here all pupils at 2A made
expected progress but only
one made more than
expected progress…
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…and three levels between KS2 and KS4
Inspectors look
closely at the
proportion making
and achieving more
than expected
progress
They use this
information to form
hypotheses about
the typical rates of
progress made by
pupils of different
abilities…this can
then be tested out
further during the
inspection
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Inspectors also use the data to see how well the
school is narrowing the achievement gap
between disadvantaged pupils and their better off
peers
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Recent additions to the data available to
inspectors includes the Year 1 phonics
screening check
The phonics screening
check is an assessment to
confirm whether children
have learnt phonic
decoding to an
appropriate standard.
It is for all Year 1 pupils
in maintained schools,
academies and Free
Schools.
It is a statutory
requirement for all
schools to carry out the
screening check.
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The Sixth Form PANDA
The sixth form performance and assessment
report (PANDA) supports the inspection of school
sixth forms and aids school self-evaluation
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Two types of PANDA Report are planned for the 12/13 academic year – one
containing unvalidated data in early December and the other in April
containing validated data.
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The PANDA includes:
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Contextual information based on the number of students on roll
submitted to the Department for Education (DfE) in the January school
census.
Information about the attainment of students in the sixth form, who took
a Level 3 qualification, compared with the national average (qualification,
subject, gender and ethnicity.)
A prior attainment chart and three year trend data for A levels and AS
levels are included.
A summary of the Level 3 Value Added (L3VA) data prepared by the DfE.
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Inspectors can review data about overall
attainment (A-E) and at the higher
grades (A*-B)
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And look at the value added to students
studying different Level 3 qualifications
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Duplicate
Inspectors
consider other
data provided by
the school,
including
commercially
produced
packages
e.g. Alps, ALIS
(see slide 28)
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Parent View
Parent View is an on-line questionnaire for
parents to express their views about their child’s
school
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Launched in 2011, it covers over 22,000 schools across England.
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The results provide Ofsted with the information to support decisions about inspection
and give headteachers a direct route into gathering the views of their parent group.
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A balance of measures, including a registration process with password, are in place
to ensure the security of the website and to treat schools fairly, while making sure it
is accessible.
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The results for each school are published on the website in real time. They are saved
at the end of the academic year so that every school will have an on-going year-onyear picture available to view.
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Inspectors look at this information before and during an inspection. They also
consider any other surveys of parental views that a school has carried out.
The questions were chosen to cover issues that parents told Ofsted are the most
important to them.
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Parents give their view on 12 questions, from
strongly agree through to strongly disagree:
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My child is happy at this school
My child feels safe at this school
My child makes good progress at this school
My child is well looked after at this school
My child is taught well at this school
My child receives appropriate homework for their age
This school ensures the pupils are well behaved
This school deals effectively with bullying
This school is well led and managed
This school responds well to any concern I raise
I receive valuable information from the school about my child’s progress
I would recommend this school to another parent
www.parentview.ofsted.gov.uk
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Parents can access results for any school
not just the one where their children go
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My child is taught well at this school:
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Strongly agree : 52%
Agree : 43%
Disagree : 3%
Strongly disagree : 1%
Don't know: 2%
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Triangulating data during
the inspection
Inspectors use data to identify inspection trails
and plan an inspection strategy…they then look at
what is currently happening in the school
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Inspectors consider the extent to which the historic and current performance of
the school match
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There is a major focus on lesson observations to evaluate the quality of
teaching and its impact on learning and progress
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Inspectors also look at:
 the school’s own monitoring information about the ‘typical’ quality of teaching
 The school’s own tracking and analysis of the achievement of pupils currently in the
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school
The most up-to-date data on attendance and persistent absence
The schools own information about behaviour, including exclusions
Any analysis that the school has from its own surveys of parents, pupils, or staff
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Inspectors also have to be familiar with a wide
range of mostly commercial products…schools use
a range of data to evaluate their performance
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CATs - Cognitive Abilities Test – a suite of standardised tests that measures the three
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Fischer Family Trust - FFT is a non-profit company established in 2001. FFT provide
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ALPS - A Level Performance System - provides A level, AS level and BTEC Level 3 value added
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MidYIS - Middle Years Information System – baseline tests for Years 7, 8 and 9
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ALIS – Advanced Level Information System - provides performance indicators for Post-16
principle areas of reasoning – verbal, non-verbal and quantitative - and indicate future
achievement
data and analyses to a schools and LAs in England and Wales. Estimates are used to inform
target setting.
reports.
YELLIS - Year 11 Information System - is a value-added monitoring system that provides a
wide range of performance indicators and attitudinal measures for students in the last two
years of schooling
students across all sectors of education, both in the UK and Internationally.
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The School Data Dashboard
The School Data Dashboard provides
governors with a snapshot of their school’s
performance…it is available to the public.
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Launched in February 2013, the dashboard can be used by school governors and by
members of the public to check the performance of the school in which they are
interested.
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The School Data Dashboard complements the Ofsted school inspection report by
providing an analysis of school performance over a three-year period.
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Inspectors will routinely discuss with governors the extent to which they are aware
of and make use of this information to monitor the school’s performance and hold
leaders to account
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Data covers:
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Expected progress
Attainment
Attendance
Closing the gap between disadvantaged and other pupils
http://dashboard.ofsted.gov.uk
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The dashboard compares the attainment of pupils
in different subjects with similar schools and all
schools nationally
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It also compares the progress made by pupils over
time and provides information about the progress
of disadvantaged pupils
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It also gives a clear indication of how attendance
in a school compares with all others nationally
The school is
in the fourth
quintile for
attendance.
Over the last
three years
attendance
has been
very close
the national
average for
all schools.
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Additional slides
Data View is a digital tool enabling people to
compare regional and local performance of schools,
further education, social care and childcare providers
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The tool allows you to compare and contrast performance in Ofsted
inspections in regions, local authority areas and constituencies over a
number of years. For example:
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to see whether schools in one area are getting better over time and
whether they are doing as well as schools in similar areas in other
parts of the England.
to compare how well primary aged pupils who go to school in the most
disadvantaged areas achieve across different regions of the country
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Data View also enables the comparison of similar local authority areas.
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http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/statistics/data-view
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Learner View is an online questionnaire that gives
learners the chance to tell Ofsted what they think
about their further education and skills provider
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Learner View asks learners for their opinion on a range of 10
aspects: from whether the lessons/training sessions are well
taught to if they would recommend the provider to a friend.
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Ofsted use the information when making decisions about which
providers to inspect, and when.
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Learners are able to see what other learners have said about their
provider or view the results for other further education and skills
providers in England.
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http://learnerview.ofsted.gov.uk
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