Using Numbers as Attendance Codes - Analysis

[DataAdmin2021]

Hi,

 

I'm looking for some ideas / suggestions from schools that use numbers in the register as a way to record classroom behaviour / attitude to learning. If you use this system, how are you doing your analysis?

At the moment I'm looking at running the Individual Register Report to show the marks for each lesson (either for an individual student or a class), however this doesn't show me what subject the score was recorded in, so needs to be used in conjunction with the student timetables, which just becomes messy and cumbersome.

 

Ideally I want reports that would give me the following information:

- a report for an individual student, showing which lessons they get which scores, but including the subject information.

- a report to show scores across whole subjects / faculties to identify areas of concern.

 

​*yes I know this isn't what the attendance function is designed for, and that there is a behaviour section that is more suited to this purpose, but SLT would like to simplify and streamline the behaviour recording and this is one method that they have asked me to look into.*

[Ditto]

Not sure I follow fully, but which MIS are you using? Are you a state school with requirements to submit census details to DfE. If yes, my worry would be converting the corrupted attendance data to valid values.

[DataAdmin2021]

We are using SIMs.

 

I'm not concerned about corrupting the attendance data as SIMs has the function to create new attendance codes that are mapped to the present mark for sessions, therefore census return would not be affected. What I need to do is find a way to pull these bespoke marks out of the lesson (no session) registers.

[a_masters]

Not what you're asking, but if you add achievement/behaviour types to registers, staff can right click a name to record an incident and it automatically records the lesson/subject automatically then. I hate all the attendance reports in SIMS!