Student Performance Analysis

• Department for Children, Schools & Families
  The latest re-naming of the Government Department responsible for education and examination results is the (DfEE)Department for Education
  
  • Department for Education
    The Government department responsible for Education in England

  • News from the DCSF
    Department for Children, Schools and Families press releases including a search function

  • Performance Assessment Tracker (PAT)
    National benchmarking information based on results.

  • Publications by DCSF
    

  • RAISE On-line - DfES replacement for PAT and PANDA
    

  • Research and Statistics Gateway
    Page with links to statistics on a very wide range of topics

  • School and College Performance Tables from the DCSF
    The Government School Performance Tables listing all Schools and Colleges in England

  • Standards & Effectiveness Unit of the DCSF
    A DCSF website with information on ways to improve schools

  • Subject points score equivalence.
    All approved qualifications and the new scoring system

• Educational Tests & Assessment
  Hodder & Stoughton - Educational publishers of a vast range of educational tests and assessment tools including the Edinburgh Reading Test series.

  Hodder & Stoughton Educational tests

• Examination boards
  AQA Assessment and Qualifications Alliance exam board.

  EDEXCEL examination board which combines the former London examination boards, ULEAC and LEAG.

  OCR examination board combining the former Cambridge and Oxford examination boards. A useful site which includes copies of the syllabuses.

  Welsh Joint Examining Board

• GovernorNet
  Website aimed at giving advice to Governors

• Harvey Goldstein's home page
  Harvey Goldstein is one of the foremost statisticians working in the field of School Improvement at the moment. There are some interesting academic papers to download and links to others.
  

• Joint Council for Qualifications
  Examination Board press releases giving information on GCSE, GCSE short course, A level and AS level results

• National Curriculum
  • National Curriculum on the Web
    

• National Assessment Agency
  Launched in 2004 to develop and deliver National Curriculum tests.

• NCER - National Consortium for Examination Results
  An organisation, based at Bath University, which analyses examination results on behalf of Local Education Authorities in the UK.
  Their website contains some interesting information on subject differentials that can be downloaded.

• NFER - National Foundation for Educational Research

• Office For Standards in Education (OFSTED)
  • OFSTED - Office For Standards in Education - Home page
    The Government office responsible for inspecting schools. These pages have links to the published inspection reports on schools throughout England.
    
  • OFSTED School inspection reports
    Links to the latest school inspection reports which can be downloaded
    
  • PANDA download site Performance Assessment National Data Analysis - useful national information for comparison with your own school's examination performance. Please note: you will need your OFSTED URN and PASSWORD.
    

• Qualifications & Curriculum Authority
  This is the new body (QCA) which replaced SCAA in 1997

• TEACHERNET Government sponsored information site.

• UCAS - Universities & Colleges Admissions Service
  Website for the UK central organisation through which applications are processed for entry to full-time undergraduate courses, HNDs and university diplomas.

• UCAS tariff tables - what points for your qualifications?

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• Badminton links
  Lots of links to badminton websites for those of you interested in hitting feathers!

• Equestrian links
  Horsey links for those of you with an interest in things to do with horses and ponies.

  
  

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