Hello and welcome to this video explaining what’s in Analyse school performance and
how it can help you review and improve your school’s performance.
This video covers ASP for primary schools. There’s a different video for secondary
schools. ASP is a secure website designed to support
you in identifying your school’s strengths and to focus on areas for improvement.
It’s to help you as school leaders, governors, LAs, MATs and those within Ofsted and DfE
find the data you need. You may also be familiar with ‘Compare school
performance’, often referred to as the ‘performance tables’
This is our public-facing service which focuses on comparisons between schools to help inform
parental choice and to hold schools to account for their performance.
ASP is intended as more of an analytical service, helping you to drill down into sub-groups
of pupils and compare your recent results with national benchmarks.
We take data security very seriously, access to ASP is via the DfE Sign in process.
This is the department's secure sign-in process which gives external users in schools and
local authorities access to departmental IT systems.
It is the service you may already use to access services like Get information about schools
or to return data collections to the DfE. Your school will have a DfE Sign in approver
who can create an account for you. If you don’t know who your approver is,
you can contact the DfE Sign in helpdesk. Now we’ll log in as a test school and walk
you through the service and its main features. As a headteacher or governor you can see headline
measures for your school, compared to the national and local authority averages.
Here’s an example of a primary school, showing key stage 2 headline measures such as Progress
in reading, writing and maths, as well as key stage 1, Phonics and Early Years Foundations
Stage performance data. You can view the data as a bar graph or as
a table. And you can download or print any of this
data to share with colleagues or governing boards.
If there’s a term you don’t understand, or you want to know more about how a measure
is calculated, you can click on the helptext links to visit DfE guidance documents.
You can then explore the data in more detail by comparing the performance of different
pupil groups against the national comparator. For example, you can compare the performance
of your male pupils against male pupils nationally. You can also add filters, such as male and
disadvantaged pupils to zoom in on particular pupil groups.
For even more detail, you can view individual pupil performance by using the scatter plots
and pupil list reports. Named pupil data is only available to those
authorised to view it. Scatter plots are a great way to see the distribution
of performance and to spot out-liers to see how effective your school’s interventions
have been. You can highlight pupils by subject and by
pupil groups such as disadvantaged pupils. Authorised users can also click on the dots
to view individual pupil details. You can also zoom in to separate the dots
if pupils have similar results. There’s an alternative view to the scatter
plots: the pupil list reports. Like the scatter plots, only authorised users
can view these. If you have access, you can use these reports
for in-depth analysis at pupil level. You can view each pupil’s contextual data
and see their performance across all subjects. You can also export the data to Excel or save
it as a PDF for further analysis or to print. We’ve brought in a new feature that allows
you to switch the disadvantaged national comparator to a like-for-like comparator.
This is different from the default DfE national average, which is to compare the performance
of disadvantaged pupils against non-disadvantaged pupils nationally.
The default comparator aims to raise the attainment of all pupils; the like-for-like comparator
allows you to compare similar cohorts. You’ll see this like-for-like option on
the disadvantaged landing page
and also in the pupil group reports. To understand your school’s performance,
it’s helpful to see it over a period which is longer than a year.
To reduce the impact of cohort-specific effects on a single year's attainment data, we have
added a new section with 3 year averages of key stage 2 attainment measures.
And for ‘Results over 3 years’ also known as Time-series we show all headline measures
to show performance over time. These are particularly useful for governors
wishing to set priorities and not over-react to short-term cohort-specific issues.
Another feature is Question level analysis. This is a key feature that schools have consistently
told us is useful for planning improvements. It allows primary schools to assess in detail
how well their children performed in different aspects of the curriculum.
Only named school users have access to this feature.
The default view is the year 6 chart view. Here you can see the school’s correct responses
against the national average. You can see the strand names by clicking on
the modals. Or you can switch to a table view of the data.
You can create a year 6 custom group by inputting their UPNs.
Teachers and subject leads can then use this information to review the areas for improvement
and their lesson plans for the start of the next academic year.
A more recent feature is our data management functionality.
This allows school named users to create “what if” scenarios and to explore the impact
on the measures by removing one or more pupils from their key stage 2, key stage 1 and phonics
data so they can see how their data looks in different scenarios.
For example, you can create a custom view showing what happens when you remove 1 or
2 pupils from the cohort. We have now removed these pupils to create
a custom view. In this custom view we can see there are now
93 pupils after removing 2 pupils from the cohort
If we toggle to the default view it reverts to the original 95 pupils.
Feedback from schools suggested many were manipulating this data manually – this feature
now automates the process. As well as performance reports, there are
a range of other data indicators which schools wish to monitor and benchmark.
You’ll find these in the ‘All reports’ section, which contains all of the reports
for your school. We’ve added a series of reports focusing
on broader issues such as absence, exclusions, prior attainment and other contextual data
about your school. We also host Ofsted’s inspection data summary
reports and school performance summary reports to support school inspections.
ASP provides the most recent data available for your school.
The ‘Data release timetable’ section gives you full details of when we plan to release
further updates, Thank you for watching this tutorial.
To quickly recap on access to ASP, contact your DfE Sign in approver.
If you have any questions, please contact us at this email address.