Progress 8 - How to tell if a student will Qualify

[gazskeltz]

Hi,

 

I've been asked to look at our Year 9 student's curriculum to see how their subjects fall into the new Progress 8 Measures (We have a three year KS4).

 

All I need to do is to place their subjects into the DFE buckets but I've been unable to find a definitive list of how to do this.

 

I'd like to calculate it in SIMS but don't mind some excel jiggery-pokery.

 

Can anyone advise if they have tried this out?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Regards

 

Gary

[Ecclesbury]

Hi Gary,

 

There was some good discussion about this over on the MIS form:

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/mis-systems/130498-progress-8-measure.html

 

This was mainly a discussion about how to set up a SIMS template to do this for you and someone actually posts an example template that you could import to see how it might be done.

[mark80]

Have a nosey here http://www.edugeek.net/forums/mis-systems/130498-progress-8-measure.html

 

All students qualify for Progress 8 measure, if they get no qualifications they get 0 points.

 

Having said that are there still restrictions on students who do not have valid KS2 results? Much like in RAISE now, students are excluded from the progress matrix measure if no valid KS2 data

[Ecclesbury]

If you haven't seen it already you can also get the latest technical desicription of how Attainment8/Progress8 will be calculated here:

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/progress-8-school-performance-measure

[gazskeltz]

Cheers!

 

I had found the latest technical guide.

 

I'm having a look through the other thread now - hopefully something to get my teeth into!

 

Regards

 

Gary

[gazskeltz]

Hi,

 

Got it and absorbed.

 

Doeas anyone have any idea if the 'National Data' is available anywhere so we can calculate Progress 8?

 

Regards

 

Gary

[Seb1780]

There will not be any national data until 2016; a mock up of 2014 results to the new progress 8 data will be available with next year's RAISE, but until then there is nothing.

[gazskeltz]

 

Makes it a bit difficult to test then...

[ICTLady]

I think you can work out their Attainment 8 score based on whether they have enough subjects in each "bucket". But there's no national benchmark yet so it's not possible to work out how they will get on with Progress 8.

[CaterinaAnna]

I've asked my LA Data team if they can produce a mock-up based on last year's results.

Not heard back yet, but then I asked within a couple of days of the technical guidance being published, so the chap I spoke to hadn't read it by that point and asked me to send him my spreadsheet!

(See other thread about this in this group)

Time to nudge, methinks.