The dashboard provides a view of school-wide assessment data
Purpose
School leaders are able to monitor progress over time by viewing longitudinal data
Heads of Department are able to:
Monitor department achievement rates by grade over time
Compare department achievement rates:
To overall school achievement rates
For priority learners to all students
Features
Page Features
Show charts
Click on a heading to open a chart
Filter data
Click on Show options, and select a faculty and/or gender and/or ethnicity
Chart Features
Hover
Hover your mouse over the chart sections to see the details
Legend
Left click on a legend item to remove it from the chart Right click on a legend item to show only that item
Menu
Click on the 3 dots at the top right of the chart to show options Change the chart view with Plot Vertical/Unstack Click on Show table to add a table of values
Review Questions
Filter by faculty to review:
Overall achievement
Compare overall achievement at each Level to school-wide achievement
Have you met your faculty goal around the proportion of standards achieved at each level of NCEA?
Are you seeing an increasing proportion of students achieving at each level over time?
Achievement at Excellence
Compare achievement at Excellence for each NCEA Level to school-wide achievement
Have you met your faculty goal around the proportion of standards being achieved at Excellence level?
Are you seeing an increasing proportion of standards being achieved at Excellence level?
Achievement of priority learners e.g. Māori and Pasifika students
Compare priority learners’ achievement within the department to their achievement school wide
Compare priority learners’ achievement within the department to the achievement of all students within the department
Are your priority learners achieving at similar rates to other students?
Have you met your goals around priority learners?
Is there an area you need to focus on for priority learners?
Scholarship
If relevant for you:
Have you met your faculty goal around the number of scholarships being attained?
Are you seeing an increasing number of scholarships being attained?
Course Report
Access
Click on the second tab Reporting Click on the third sub-tab Course Click on Table to show all courses
Access a course within a faculty
Click on the faculty name Click on a course name Click on the chosen year
Access a course by name or code
Click on Table Search for the course name or code
Course Report Features
Overview
Student progress in the course
Overall
By class
By standard
By gender
By ethnicity
Evaluated by NCEA credits
Purpose
Compare results by class, standard, gender, ethnicity Look for areas of success and areas for improvement, for example, consider:
Is the first standard one in which all students are likely to excel?
Is there a standard on which more time should be spent?
Chart Features
Hover
Hover your mouse over the chart sections to see the details
Legend
Left click on a legend item to remove it from the chart Right click on a legend item to show only that item
Menu
Click on the 3 dots at the top right of the chart to show options Change the chart view with Plot Vertical/Unstack Change to Plot absolute Click on Show table to add table of values
Review questions
Choose a course to review:
Overall achievement
How does overall achievement compare to achievement in other courses at the same level?
Are you seeing a decreasing proportion of credits not achieved over time?
Consider the reasons for this
Achievement at Excellence
How does achievement at Excellence compare to achievement at Excellence in other courses at the same level?
Are you seeing an increasing proportion of achievement at Excellence level over time?
Achievement by Class
Compare achievement by class
Consider factors that have affected achievement, for example:
Class size
This particular cohort
Timetable effects on student groupings in classes
Staff change or illness
Keeping the above in mind, are there any areas of concern?
Are there strategies or resources one teacher can share with others?
Achievement by Gender
Compare achievement by gender
Is there an area you need to focus on for male or female learners?
Achievement of priority learners e.g. Māori and Pasifika students
Compare priority learners’ achievement to the achievement of other learners
Have you met your goals around priority learners?
Is there an area you need to focus on for priority learners?
Class Report
Access
Click on the second tab Reporting Click on the fourth sub-tab Class
Class Report Features
Overview
Student progress in the class
Overall
By standard
By gender
By ethnicity
Evaluated by NCEA credits and GPA
Purpose
Compare results by standard, gender, ethnicity
Class List Features
Overview
Student achievement in this class
Purpose
Monitor student progress towards goals (e.g. 14 credits in Level 3 class) Compare students' performance in this class compared to others (Class GPA c.f. NCEA GPA)
Tools
Click on a heading to order the list by that heading Click on it again to change the order of the list
Explore the Data
Access
Click on the third tab Explore the Data Click on Browse
Explore the Data Feature 1
Overview
Review results in a chosen standard
Over recent years
By gender
By ethnicity
By class
Purpose
Evaluate the teaching and learning of a standard
Tools
Click on
NCEA
NCEA L1, L2 or L3
A subject
Note: These are subjects as defined by NZQA. For example, English is in Humanities and Maths is in Science.
A field (e.g. English)
A domain
A standard
Grade
If this is the only standard you wish to view, click OK If you which to view multiple standards at once, click each standard, then grade, one at a time. Then, click OK.
Options
Choose multiple years
Chose one year
By ethnicity
By gender
By related class
Add a comparison to national results, if the year is 2021 or prior
Explore the data Feature 2
Overview
Review cohort results across the faculty
Purpose
Review the proportion of students gaining
14 credits
14 credits at M and/or E
Tools
Click on NCEA, the choose an NCEA level (L1, L2 or L3). Select a subject and that subjects credits, then click OK.
Next, select your year of interest, and click Export.
Review questions
Feature 1: Choose a standard recently assessed to review teaching and learning. Consider:
Achievement over time
Compare overall achievement each year
Are you seeing an increasing proportion of students achieving over time?
Are you seeing an increasing proportion of students achieving at Excellence level?
Give reasons for the above. Consider:
Differences within cohorts
Events impacting achievement e.g. Covid
Is there something here that you as a department need to work on?
Achievement by Gender (if relevant)
Compare achievement of male and female students
Notice any significant differences
Give reasons
Is there something here that you as a department need to work on?
Achievement of priority learners e.g. Māori and Pasifika students
Compare achievement of Māori and Pasifika students with students in other groups
Notice any significant differences
Give reasons
Is there something here that you as a department need to work on?
Achievement by class
Compare achievement within classes
Notice any significant differences
Give reasons
Is there an area here where more support is needed?
Achievement compared to national achievement
Compare results to all deciles or to your decile. Note the current year’s national results are not available until May.
Feature 2: Choose the NCEA Level you wish to analyse results for. Consider:
Using the chart
What is the proportion of students that attained 14 or more credits?
Using the exported file
What is the proportion of students who gained Merit and/or Excellence across the department?
What is the proportion of students that attained Not Achieved or were absent?
What are the areas you need to focus on for improvement?
