mjervis

Thanks, I'll read through the links. The current situation is that the school extracts the data to spreadsheet; but this involves many clicks through many pages - each subject, each year group etc. It would be great just to run a script to automate this repetitive task. Any other links you have would to scripting multiple data extraction from SIMs would be most welcome. I'd like to go in and help them set something up, but want to get as much research and preparation done as possibile beforehand.

Of course just being able to script the extraction of the that data such as grade distributions per subject per year, would be useful. This seems like such a common task to want to do and it seems very laborious to do it manually, that someone much have a set of pre-canned scripts for things like this.

I've just been through SIMs with our HeadTeacher. There is obviously a huge amount of individual pupil data put into the system, but it seems a very time consuming process to extract whole-school or averaged views; for example a graphical breakdown of progress for a cohort across subgroups such as FSM, or cohort APS or threshold level graphs. Something like this: .. or like the school or FFT dashboard summaries. Is this possible? Has anyone written scripts to access the underlying database and extract & graph the data like this? Obviously something like SIMs --> Gapminder would be great!