Databusters

By Richard SelfridgeEducation

Databusters episodes

July 12, 2024 S5 E5 Key Stage SATs 2024
Richard Selfridge and James Pembroke's regular look at education data. The Databusters discuss Key Stage 2 SATs 2024.
Jamie's Primary Assessment Gateway blog

Special Consideration figures 2022 (Tabs 17, 18 & 19)

Key stage 2 attainment: National headlines 23/24

National curriculum test handbook: 2016 and 2017 containing 2016 'cut scores'
Measuring Up by Daniel Koretz (page 188 onwards)
Sophie Bartlett's tweet with scores for 'pass marks' the 'cut scores' for 2017-2024
Key stage 2 attainment: National headlines 2016-2024
'Little Guide for Teachers: Using student data' podcast Thinking Deeply about Primary Education
35 min
July 03, 2024 S5 E4 Attendance matters
Richard Selfridge and James Pembroke's regular look at education data. The Databusters discuss attendance data.
Richard's What do we know about Pupil Absence and what should schools do as a result? blog.
Links between absence and attainment are consistent over time.

Schooldash blog Post-pandemic pupil absences have remained stubbornly high with interactive absence charts.
FFT's Pupils with absence rates between 5% and 15% blog.

EEF guidance.
DfE Working together to improve school attendance.
Insight's Pupil Attendance reporting.
33 min
May 20, 2024 A strategic approach to developing your use of student data
An audio version of A strategic approach to developing your use of student data by Richard Selfridge
7 min
April 22, 2024 S5 E3 Developing a Data Strategy
Richard Selfridge and James Pembroke's regular look at education data. The Databusters discuss developing a Data Strategy to improve your use of education data.
Schools Week article on attendance rules.
More information and tickets for ⁠Data in Schools Conferences⁠
33 min
January 23, 2024 S5 E2 International Bright Young Things
Richard Selfridge and James Pembroke's regular look at education data. The Databusters discuss global education and England's place in the world.
More information and tickets for Data in Schools Conferences
Factfullness - Hans Rosling's legacy (https://www.gapminder.org/factfulness/gap/)
How not to be ignorant about the world (https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_and_ola_rosling_how_not_to_be_ignorant_about_the_world)
United Nation's Global Goals for Education ( ⁠https://www.globalgoals.org/goals/4-quality-education/)
UNESCO's Global Education Monitoring report (https://www.education-progress.org/en/articles/learning)
IEA's TIMMS and PIRLS
England TIMMS 2019
England PIRLS 2021
OECD's PISA
United Kingdom PISA 2022
36 min
November 16, 2023 S5 E1 Key Stage 1 and Who's 'Disadvantaged'?
Richard Selfridge and James Pembroke's regular look at education data. The Databusters discuss the end of statutory assessment at the end of Key Stage 1 and what Ofsted and the DfE mean by 'disadvantaged pupils'.
More information and tickets for Data in Schools Conferences
End of KS1 Assessments
KS1: "The government encourages schools to administer the optional tests and teacher assessments, but there is no requirement to use these, or report results to parents or local authorities, and they will not be used for school accountability purposes. Schools who do not use the optional tests and teacher assessments do not have to report this to STA."
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2024-optional-key-stage-1-tests-guidance/2024-optional-key-stage-1-tests-guidance
Who's Disadvantaged?
DfE: Disadvantaged pupils are ordinarily defined as: those who were registered as eligible for free school meals at any point in the last six years, children looked after by a local authority or have left local authority care in England and Wales through adoption, a special guardianship order, a residence order or a child arrangements order.
https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/key-stage-2-attainment/2022-23
Ofsted: the term ‘disadvantaged pupils’ is used to mean: pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND); pupils who meet the definition of children in need of help and protection; pupils receiving statutory local authority support from a social worker; and pupils who otherwise meet the criteria used for deciding the school’s pupil premium funding (this includes pupils claiming free school meals at any point in the last 6 years, looked after children (children in local authority care) and/or children who left care through adoption or another formal route)
(https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-inspection-handbook-eif/school-inspection-handbook-for-september-2023)
Children in Need are a legally defined group of children (under the Children Act 1989), assessed as needing help and protection as a result of risks to their development or health. This group includes children on child in need plans, children on child protection plans, children looked after by local authorities, care leavers and disabled children. Children in need include young people aged 18 or over who continue to receive care, accommodation or support from children’s services and unborn children.
https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need/2022
Dataproof Your School by Richard Selfridge and James Pembroke
29 min
July 05, 2023 S4 E5 Becky Allen Part 2 The future of Education Data
Richard Selfridge and James Pembroke's regular look at education data. The second part of the Databusters discussion with Professor Becky Allen.

Data in Schools Conference, London

The Next Big Thing In School Improvement by Rebecca Allen, Matthew Evans and Ben White
Becky Allen - Musings on Education Policy
53 min
May 31, 2023 S4 E4 Becky Allen Part 1 - How Did We get Here?
Richard Selfridge and James Pembroke's regular look at education data. The Databusters welcome Professor Becky Allen to the Databusters HQ.

Data in Schools Conference
Databusting Ashton-Under-Lyne

The Next Big Thing In School Improvement by Rebecca Allen, Matthew Evans and Ben White
Becky Allen - Musings on Education Policy

39 min
March 09, 2023 S4 E3 Age-Related Expectations and the 'lowest 20%' of readers
Richard Selfridge and James Pembroke's regular look at education data. The Databusters discuss what Ofsted mean by 'pupils who are reading below age-related expectations (the lowest 20%)'.

Age-Related Expectations? by James Pembroke
Using Data Properly: Which side of March 2nd? by Richard Selfridge
Getting older quicker by Dave Thompson for FFT Datalab
32 min
December 06, 2022 S4 E2 A Databusters' Guide for Governors
Richard Selfridge and James Pembroke's regular look at education data. The Databusters recorded a webinar for primary school governors on 1 December 2022; here is the audio for you.
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