The Progress measure consists of the Value Added Measure for Academic and Applied General qualifications and the Completion-Attainment Measure for Tech Levels and, when available, Tech Certs (Summer 2018). Value Added and Target Setting - Timeline A useful technique to help to visualise the system is to think in terms of time-scale. At any given point in time (today) there are Past students, Current students and Future students. e.g. in February 2018: Academic Year 16/17 Academic Year 17/18 Academic Year 18/19 Past students Current students Future students Sept 16 Sept 17 Sept 18 February 2018 (time of writing) The reason this is useful is that value added analysis is a large, rolling process which covers many academic years – and where several academic years are relevant at any given point in time. For example at the time of writing (February 2018), we have current students who will be making progress against their target grades. These target grades may well be based on the performance of past students (e.g. students who finished the same courses in 15/16 or 16/17). The value added for students who studied in 15/16 was made available in January 2017 and the value added for students who studied in 16/17 was made available in January 2018, so either of these datasets would be available for the setting of targets for current students as of February 2018. Furthermore, the 16/17 value added data (published in January 2018) will be available from day 1 of the courses which Future students (i.e. 2018/19 students) enrol onto. During academic year 18/19, a new value added dataset will be published (in January 2019) which can also be used with those students and students enrolling in September 2019 – and so it goes on….. The key features of OneGrade are that it helps you to: Analyse and evaluate the added results of past students, and also Plan, calculate, export and manage target grades for current and future students.
Qualification The ‘Qualification’ table brings together the Cohort, Qualification Code, Subject Code and Size into a complete representation of the qualifications in the scope of Level 3 value added. Once again this data will be pre-loaded and maintained by Total College on an annual basis. In the 15/16 academic year there were a total of 627 qualifications in the L3VA dataset, just a few of which are seen below: Taking Extended Diploma in Business as an example we can see that its code is made up as follows: 3 = cohort code; 306 = qualification (type) code; 20101 = subject code; 3 = size (A level equivalence) Giving a full qualification code of 3306201013 Whereas the code for A level Biology is made up as follows: 1 = cohort code; 111 = qualification (type) code; 11010 = subject code; 1 = size Giving a full qualification code of 1111110101 These codes are used to identify specific qualifications and allow us to map to Learning Aims, meaning that OneGrade can connect with course information in a college’s MI system. Clicking on the ‘Details’ button against any row will display the national value added lines which were introduced earlier in this guide. Qualification Code Grade This is so called because each of the main qualification codes (which identify broad types of qualification) will have a grading scale associated with it. These points scores were rebased for 15/16 so that a true picture of value added can be calculated across the full range of different types of level 3 qualification. The points/grades mapping are also important in calculating target grades for students based on projected points:
The two Value Added screens in particular can generate large, complex database queries and if timeout errors are reported then increasing the timeout will solve the issue. User Accounts OneGrade is designed to be used by a relatively number of staff - hence the client system has a simple screen where accounts can be created and managed: User Defined Fields These are crucial to helping you get the best out of the system. In order to analyse results for past students and set targets for current and new students, two primary imports will enable you to add college level detail to the system: Student import Enrolment import Each of these imports contains the following (optional) user defined fields: 4 user defined text value fields, 1 user defined number value field, 1 user defined date value field In the import specifications, these columns will have the names seen in the ‘System Field Name’ column below. However, OneGrade allows you to relabel any of these fields, as seen in the ‘User Defined Name’ column: Simply click on ‘Details’ for the row and specify a user defined name: These fields can then be used in two very important ways: Including User Defined Fields in Value Added Analysis User defined fields can be used as categories when analysing past value added results for cohorts. For example, UserDefinedString4 at student level has been relabelled ‘Attendance Banding’. In the