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Being ready for the New Year Analysing and reviewing data across national test results is key to tracking and monitoring progress for pupils. FFT is helping schools understand key trends and what the implications are for moving forward mean results day data next year will be available too. More and more people are now connecting the Aspire data exchange to their own school data. This ensures the FFT data accurately reflects in real time a school’s pupil list, meaning for KS1, KS2, KS4 and KS5 that forward-looking benchmark data is available at a touch of a screen for all pupils.
Fischer Family Trust FFT is a not-for-profit organisation helping with the use of good data. Fischer Family Trust data has been well used for the past 16 years and has included for much of that time value added progress data and forward looking projections. FFT provide free special reports and dashboards, blogs and research via FFT Education DataLab and a subscription service, FFT Aspire. The time is here that many school leaders and managers are making sure they have their school and pupil data at their fingertips ready for the new academic year. At FFT we work with over 14,000 schools to ensure this happens smoothly and effectively and this summer is no exception. Analysing Data Recently our Key Stage One Early Results Service, a free service for schools who already use FFT Aspire, has been saving people time by giving an early analysis of the 2018 data before the end of term. The 2018 dashboard with teacher assessment and scaled score comparisons has allowed analysis not only at a whole school level but also for groups and subjects. An important and unique aspect of the reports have been early ‘EYFS to KS1 Value Added Progress’ analysis using FFT estimates. Progress for 2018 For a first sight of 2018 progress, the Year 6 pupil reports are being used to review the Scaled Score predictions (based on starting points) to compare with the recently released national test results. Aspire Data The Aspire data exchange has just completed its pilot and is now being deployed. This will
The FFT Roadshow 3,000 people attended an FFT roadshow last autumn. This year’s roadshows look at the potential impact of the new assessment arrangements at a national, regional and school level, in particular the new baseline assessment. Delegates are exploring with FFT new ways to look at progress and finding out more about the tracking and results day services. Like last year the roadshow delegates have an analytical overview of this year’s results. What are the key messages and trends? How do they impact on your school and what can you learn going forward? Plus an overview of the latest new reports and analyses for schools in ASP and Ofsted’s IDSR. Those planning to attend a roadshow will be one of the first schools to get early access to the new Aspire progress dashboards and an exclusive FFT ‘Early Impact Assessment Report’ for KS1 or a Secondary School report. User Feedback Feedback from FFT Aspire users this year has shown that the new features have proved useful with navigation giving clear and quick access to all the dashboards, targets and expectations automatically aggregating and the extended dashboards helping with a more detailed subject-based analysis for subject leads.
This autumn new Key Stage 5 reports will be used, giving robust analysis of sixth form achievement. This will include the measurement of progress from 9-1 GCSEs to A-levels and BTECs for post-16 pupils. FFT tracking and monitoring The last major new development to discuss is FFT tracking and monitoring. With most pupils in schools now having Scaled Scores and working towards either national standards or 9-1 GCSE grades, FFT is starting to help measure progress for all pupils though each year. FFT will soon be piloting a pupil tracking feature in Aspire allowing you to input interim pupil assessments and monitor progress. L
The FFT Top 10 tips for the summer: Check the scaled score in FFT Aspire. Go to the target setting module for each pupils’ score Are your pupils on course to meet expectations? Check estimates in our target setting module Use the Early Results Service with the target setting module to find early KS2 estimates for Year 3 pupils at the start of September Check that your new pupils in Year 3, Year 7 or Year 12 are reflected in FFT Aspire, using the data exchange or the simple uploads Match pupils to GCSE or A Level subjects Find early estimates and predictions for Year 3, Year 7 and Year 12. Check out the range of special reports from FFT Keep an eye on the FFT Education DataLab blog for the latest impacts of this summer’s results Be knowledgeable and ahead of the game with a booking on the FFT roadshow Create FFT Aspire users, ready to access the 2018 evaluation dashboards
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