Data matters highly in schools and it is of crucial importance where factors such as performance, attainment and standards come into play. Clean, integral data can be essential in allowing tutors to quickly see correlations in key factors such as attendance, improvement in grades, distance travelled to school and demographic.
Tools such as pivot tables and pivot charts in Excel can be crucial in drilling down through data, allowing key results to be found in areas such as course satisfaction. Languages such as excel formulas and expressions can quickly be used to produce snapshots of the student community, crucial for seeing trends in skills improvements as well as areas requiring special attention.
Clean and integral data is also suitable for all bodies submitting ILR returns, i.e. all providers receiving funding from the department of education through advanced learner loans. ILR data is important in ensuring that learner data is accurately collected and reported to ensure effective partitioning of resources and school outcomes.
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