BBPA Multi-Year Page

The Banded by Prior Attainment table helps you to start asking questions about the progress of groups of students. You can use this feature for up to four in-year monitoring points, or your exam results from the last four years. These questions may include:

Which student prior attainment group made the most progress? 

Look at your high prior attainers – are they making progress equivalent to the provider in the top 25% nationally over the Gradepoint trend? 

Have any prior attainment bands grown or reduced in number and what implications has this had on their collective progress? 

Has the progress of any group started to drop? Or has any group made significantly better progress?

The screenshot below is from a KS5 interactive session from the Strategic Analysis zone. The table in here has broken down the analysis over 4 in-year monitoring points. Under each monitoring point, the table shows the Points Target, Student entries, the Points Scored and the Alps Grade. The Points Target is the equivalent value of the Alps Minimum Expected Grade (MEG), generated for each pupil based off their Prior Attainment. 

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