How will KS2 value added be calculated next year?
Once KS1 Levels are no longer the starting point for value added calculations, a number of challenges exist
What can short standardised tests tell us about the attainment and progress of individual pupils and of schools?
Exploring some of the problems with using commercial tests to measure pupil progress
Value added measures in performance tables: A recap of the main issues for secondary schools
Announcing a new report for secondary 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.
The correlation between Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 value added
How well do schools’ value added (VA) scores at Key Stage 1 correlate with their value added scores at Key Stage 2? Do schools with high scores on one tend to achieve a high score on the other? Or do schools with low VA scores at KS1 tend to achieve high VA scores at KS2? [...]