the website for anapoly limited
I am researching the ways in which school performance is assessed and have focused for a while on ‘value added’. The initial findings from my research are shown here, which looks only at the whole school measure. I hope the style of presentation communicates what the numbers are saying in a way that is easy to understand. Something for the Performance Working Group to develop further?
Department for Education: school performance tables 1994-2010
Department for Education (?) paper on progress measures from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 2.
Primary schools have progress tracking systems. Primary Progress Toolkit (www.primaryprogresstoolkit.co.uk) uses the measure of Standard Progress to track pupil progress against National Standards.
An interesting discussion about whether the Raspberry Pi will interest young people today and help create the computer scientists and software engineers of tomorrow.
The Computing at School Working Group (CAS) is “a grass roots organisation that aims to promote the teaching of Computing at school. CAS is a collaborative partner with the BCS through the BCS Academy of Computing, and has formal support from other industry partners.“