This article is designed to give you an overview of the mathematics and English comparison filter in the Student Analysis Overview. This filter allows you to identify those students who are/are not hitting grade 5 achievement in mathematics and/or in English.

Alternatively, you can watch our short, 3 minute, video on the Mathematics and English comparison filter in the Student Analysis Overview below:

You can find more short videos on Connect features by clicking here.

The purpose of the feature in Connect

Our drive is to make Connect a tool which supports you in all aspects of your tracking and analysis. We recognise that a big part of leadership at Key Stage 4 centres around English and mathematics as subject areas. More specifically, that you will want to identify students who are currently not meeting grade 5 in one or both subjects and develop effective and targeted intervention strategies with those not hitting the grades. This new feature allows you to do just that.

This tool is a slight departure from our usual stance as it centres on an attainment measure. However, combined with our Alps measurements of success, achieving at or higher than your Alps MEG, we believe this will be a useful tool.

You will have full visibility on the context of students, for example, a student who is not achieving grade 5 at Maths, but whose progress is outstanding in Alps terms will still deserve our praise and recognition, and the conversation with that student can be tailored accordingly.

Using the Tracking (grade 5) in Mathematics and in English feature effectively

From your Connect Homepage, click on – Student Analysis Overview. 

The Student Analysis Overview shows you the horizontal overview of your students with colours indicating how the grade entered relates to their MEG – Minimum Expected Grade. Colours indicate:

• RED – student is on or above MEG in that subject
• PINK – student is on the lower grade of a split MEG
• BLACK – student is one grade below MEG
• BLUE – student is more than one grade below MEG

Once in the Student Analysis Overview – click on the Apply Comparisons dropdown and choose the GCSE English/Maths level 5+option.

This will sort your students into categories, where ‘met’ means achieving the grade 5:

• Met in both
• Below in mathematics only
• Below in English only (this will be the better of a student’s English Language / Literature grade)
• Not met in either
  

If you have used fine grades, the filter will only be applied to the whole grade.

Once you have applied the filter, you can export to excel.

Taking the context into consideration: Examples

Student A: Is achieving both mathematics and English, but the colours on their SPO continue to indicate that they are below MEG. This is a rather larger issue for the life chances of these students than meeting grade 5, and subject teachers should be addressing this on an individual basis with the student. The Pastoral Team will also have a role to play in the tracking and supporting of this student.

Student B: Achieving Mathematics, but not English – the English grade is 4+ which is BLACK with respect to MEG. This student is likely to be in the very top priority intervention group for the English department. The 4+ indicates that student is in the ‘stretch’ fine grade category, and the chances of stretching them to a grade 5 is higher.

Student C: Not achieving either at grade 5, however all MEGs are RED, indicating that they are making good progress with respect to their baseline assessment at KS2. You are likely to have these students in an intervention group as they are on the boundary of the grade 5 in both, however, don’t forget that these students are already making strong progress and should be rewarded accordingly.