If you collect percentages rather than grades, you can create a grade method in Analytics to cater for these. This will allow you to upload percentages for your qualifications and analyse them in the reports.
Please note this method is only recommended for KS3 cohorts, as KS4 cohorts should ideally use official grades with Attainment 8 points in order to produce Headline measures.
Below we have outlined how to create a grade method to include percentages within Analytics as well as examples of how this would look in the Reports.
We recommend taking a look at the Reports section of this article to see the analysis this would provide, before proceeding.
Grade Method
To create a new ‘Percentage’ grade method, go to CONFIG. > Grade Methods > KS3/4 Methods and click ‘Create KS3/4 Grade Method’.
Step 1
- Select ‘No Points’ or ‘Custom Points’. Custom Points will allow you to setup points for subgrades as well later on, so that a grade 99 for example can be worth 99 points.
- Select ‘Yes - This method uses subgrades’ under ‘Subgrades?’ heading. Click ‘Next’.
Step 2
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Step 3
- Enter the Sub Grades 9 to 0, from highest to lowest, as shown below. Click ‘Next’.
Step 4
- Select all the relevant grades and untick the ones you would not upload. For example, you may want to untick the sub grades for 100 and Abs. Then, click ‘Next’.
Step 5
- Setup the Whole Grade equivalences. For example, you could select the equivalent of 9 to be 90, the equivalent of 8 to be 80 etc. This means that a value of 8 uploaded will be treated as 80 in the reports. Therefore if a student did obtain 8%, this needs to be uploaded as 08. Click ‘Next’.
Step 6
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This will be available if the ‘Custom Points’ option was selected on Step 1.
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You can tick ‘This method uses custom points for subgrades’ and enter points for individual percentages if required. For example, if you’d like 88 to be worth 88 points. Then, click ‘Next’.
Step 7
- Confirm the method.
The screenshot below shows how the Grade Method might look like when finished. As per above, the whole grades would be setup as 1-9 and there would be another grade for students with 100%. Entering the sub grades as 9 to 0, would create the ‘Master Grades’ such as 99, 98, 97 etc. allowing you to upload percentages.
If you decided to enter the points for subgrades as well, then some extra functionality in the reports can be used. For example, average points would show how the students’ average percentage has changed over time.
If you only use whole grade points within the grade method, then each subgrade would carry the same points as the whole grade. For example 50 and 59 would both be worth the whole point score of 50.
Whereas, if you were to set up sub grade points, you could set this to ensure that 50 is worth 50 points, but 59 is worth 59 points and therefore the average points would be more precise.
Reports
Below you can see some examples of how the reports would look when analysing percentages.
Grades > Overview > Qualifications Report
The screenshot below shows the Grades > Overview > Qualifications report. The 9 column would include values from 90-99, the 8 column values from 80-89, etc. This allows you to see the count of students in that range for each qualification. To see the specific values however (e.g. 90-99%), you would need to drill down on the students with a 9, then into a class.
Grades > Overview > Qualifications Report - Cumulative
This shows the Grades > Overview > Qualifications report with cumulative percentages enabled. For example, the 100-8% column will show you the percentage of your students within that qualification who have scored between 80% and 100%.
Grades > Grade List Report
This report lists all of the students with a grade in a particular qualification, and allows to view the actual percentage achieved in the selected qualification. Columns are also available for student expectations provided EAPs have been fully setup.
Grades > Total Report
As mentioned earlier, if you have set up your method with custom points, the Average Points column can be used to see a qualification/class/student’s average percentage. In the example below, you can see that KS3 Art has an average of 46.82, which would be 46.82%.
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