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As a man may I apologise for the performance of my gender on this evening's debate - women FTW

AKA The Republican Party - you're welcome to it!

It suggests a 76% satisfaction rating if I lived in South Cambridgeshire which is not a million miles away from where I do live with a satisfaction rating of 72%. Guess I won't be moving any time soon.

Some movement, a quote from the site:- "we have applied a level of security that is not required" I think that's a pretty good euphemism, might use it myself one day.

If only it were that simple:- a) The existing Change Requests have been transferred over b) All their votes appear to have been set to zero c) As an LA supported school we have to go through the LA to get a change request accepted Damn

Another disappointed LA supported school here. We've had a valuable resource reduced to dross. Now, instead of a five minute task to search it myself I have to put a call in to the LA, wait half a day for a response and then repeat the process until I get the answer I need. What a waste of taxpayers' money.

Data is data - digital or not! The retention periods referred to in this document apply to any format.

A good place to start is the Records Management Toolkit for Schools, RM Toolkit for Schools - Information and Records Management Society

The unread subscribed thread list is looking a lot better now, thanks.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38993000/jpg/_38993885_sunheadline203.jpg All time fav! I know the Liverpool Echo did the original one about Ian Callaghan and QPR in the 70's, but that was before the internet!

And the list of subscribed threads with unread replies has gone large (correctly, but they used to drop off after a day-ish previously)

It defaults to the "My Documents" folder (although this could just be the last one I used). From there I can see most, but not all, of the folders in there. Within any given folder not all the files are appearing.

I'm running Win8.1 on my old lappy at home and today I noticed that when I try to attach a file to an e-mail using the native mail client I do not see all folders and documents when I browse for the attachment. Has anyone seen this before? FYI it's an old Dell Inspiron 1525 with an SSD.

I've just spoken with our NM and found ours too is filling with error messages, although from my perspective as the MINTclass administrator I've not seen a problem. It would appear ZiNET are not yet ready to let the world know who they are ZiNET Data Solutions

Or not even on the Beta test list, yet getting the Beta test e-mails

We're just using the seating plans / student information parts as we have a separate system for reports and marksheets. Now who might that be

We use this and have been impressed with the way it has developed from its earliest incarnations to the current offering. Teachers like it, SLT like it and, after a few teething problems, I like it (from a Data Managers pov). Our technical team have had little input other than setting up the feed from SIMS.

Tried that, got new password and still "account locked try again later"! Ho-hum

Meanwhile, somewhere in France.....

I've had the e-mails but I can't get in - I keep getting a "account locked try again later" message :-(

I've just received two strange notifications about a post. I got two notifications, one to advise I had been quoted and one to advise I had been named; when I looked at the post neither of these were true. Post in question is http://www.edugeek.net/forums/behind-red-door/132256-what-annoying-things-did-you-do-today-125.html#post1276841 Also, I've got notifications turned off on the app, but they still come through.

That's a good comparison to do. How about calculating the difference (say D now and B earlier would be -2; A now and B earlier would be +1). Then for each student add up their total difference and looking at the students with the biggest differences first. Similar principles can be applied to subjects and, perhaps, classes within a subject.

Back to the question - percentiles and predictions. This is a minefield - ask a bunch of statisticians how best to achieve this and 98.7% of the will give a different answer (this statistic may be made up). There will be talk of distributions, fish, things with two names and normality (whatever that is). For the most part this can be ignored. From reading the OP I'm assuming you want to produce a report that says "In Subject A the mock results would suggest we will average a grade X and most people will get between grade W and grade Z" - which, of course, the statistical tools in Excel can work out from your data. But, you have a relatively small sample size and very few potential outcomes so most of the statistical techniques will give you a true but totally irrelevant answer. For instance, from the data in the OP I can state with confidence that 99.8% of your students will get an A-level between A* and U (based on average of C and SD of 0.97) because 99.8% of a normally distributed population falls within +/- 3 standard deviations of the average - true but useless! For the most part when I do this kind of analysis I do one of two things:- 1 - Look at the distribution of the grades using pivot tables and charts - I might throw in an "average" grade but nothing more. This kind of analysis is used to identify those at the C/D boundary (for GCSE) and the potential effects of interventions. 2 - Look at the difference between what we have and what we would predict (using e.g. FFT) - this type of data is better suited to being treated as a normal distribution and can be useful to identify underperforming students / classes / teachers. The PERCENTILE.INC function isn't really going to help with either of these analyses; it is simply ranking all the results from high to low (or vice versa) and telling you the score achieved by the student at whatever percentile you enter, if your data is skewed in any way (and A-level results certainly can be) this function will produce some rather unexpected results.

What have you started? Good luck you and Will - I'm guessing the phone calls will start any time now

I'm looking into it as I'm not au fait with PERCENTILE.INC but to start off with I would change the "FALSE" in your VLOOKUP to "TRUE" and this will work without the truncation provided your lookup values are arranged in order.