T Score & Quality of Teaching Pages
What is the T score?
The T Score is an overall score that averages your Alps Grades for Quality Indicator, RED teaching and BLUE teaching. In the screenshot below, you can see these three Grades in the table and the T Score calculated by averaging them.
A Red T Score means that you have made progress in the top 25% nationally.
A Blue T Score means that your progress is in the bottom 25% nationally.
What is RED/BLUE Teaching & Learning?
Your RED and BLUE Teaching & Learning scores and grades are based on the percentage of entries in subjects that were graded either 1-3 or 7-9. Subjects with more entries have the most impact on both indicators.
You want your RED teaching percentage to be as high as possible, in other words, a higher percentage of entries in subjects which are overall RED.
Conversely, you want your BLUE teaching percentage to be as low as possible, meaning that fewer students have sat examinations in subjects with an overall BLUE outcome.
The percentage in the BLACK are performing at national average, which is scored as an Alps Grade 4-6.
Quality of Teaching
The Quality of Teaching tab, located in Strategic Analysis, shows you the number of student entries in each of the Alps Grade bands. The thermometers will show your Red and Blue grades for the main Gradepoint only. In the example below, the first table shows for the June Gradepoint that there are 126 students in Blue and 22 students in Red, with the remaining in between in Black.
The second table shows these values as percentages, and the third table collates these into the Grade bands which are plotted onto a thermometer to show you how they compare nationally. In the example below, as only 4.1% of the students are in the Red zone, this has produced a Grade 7 on the Red Thermometer, which means the number of students making high levels of progress is in the bottom 25% nationally. On the Blue Thermometer, you can see 23.4% of students are in the Blue zone, which has produced an Alps Grade 5, meaning the number of students making low levels of progress is at the national average.
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