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National Pupil Database: The Future

National Pupil Database: The Future. Catherine Blackham Data Services Group DfES. National Pupil Database: The Future. NPD content development Data collection developments Gaining better access to the data NPD and the DfES Data Warehouse. NPD Content Development: Children Looked After.

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National Pupil Database: The Future

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  1. National Pupil Database: The Future Catherine Blackham Data Services Group DfES

  2. National Pupil Database: The Future • NPD content development • Data collection developments • Gaining better access to the data • NPD and the DfES Data Warehouse

  3. NPD Content Development: Children Looked After • Children’s Act 2004 • Safeguard & promote the welfare of a child, in particular to promote educational achievement • Allows identifying information to be submitted by authorities to Secretary of State. • To allow the linkage of 2 databases; • The CLA (Children Looked After) database • The National Pupil Database

  4. NPD Content Development: Children Looked After Key benefits: • Improved Analysis • Reducing Burdens Issues still to be addressed: • Access rights

  5. NPD Content Development: Higher Education Data Administrative Data Sources • Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) record • Universities & Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) record • Student Loan Company (SLC) Protocol

  6. NPD Content Development: Higher Education Data Key Benefits • Modelling of changes of entry and application to HE • Analyses of why different groups apply for different institutions • Modelling changes in patterns of HE achievements

  7. NPD Content Development: Level 2 & Level 3 at 19 database What is it? • Relatively new dataset • Assesses the first time a student achieves Level 2 & Level 3 • Includes Academic/Vocational data from Awarding Bodies & Individual Learner Record Developments planned? • Discounting across dataset to allow point scores to be calculated

  8. Developments to Data Collections: School Census Background • No longer called PLASC • Secondary Schools 2006; Primary Schools 2007 What’s different? • Termly pupil collection • New data items – Absence & Exclusions

  9. Developments to Data Collections: Improved Processes Background • Three DfES projects concerned with collection & preparation of pupil data What’s different? • One single contract Benefits? • Removes duplication • Single source of data • Better quality and more consistent data • Improved timing

  10. NPD: Developments in Data Access • On-line DfES portal containing; • Data analyses tools – to allow slicing and dicing of the data • Standard Reports – School, Local Authority & National analyses • Data Extract tool – to allow users to download their own data extracts

  11. What is the Data Warehouse? Data Warehouse Reference Data Local Authority Data LA No. Pupil Data (NPD) LA No. School Level Data School Workforce Data School No. School No. Postcode Geographical Data Postcode

  12. Data Warehouse: School Database • Background • need for a consistent picture of school level data over time • What’s in it? • Attainment data • School characteristics • Aggregate pupil characteristics (where possible) • Finance

  13. Data Warehouse: School Database Key Benefits • Time-series analyses • Changes in school performance • Changes in school characteristics • When initiatives impact on performance Issues still to be addressed: • Status of data

  14. Any Questions? Contact Details: E-mail – Catherine.Blackham@dfes.gsi.gov.uk

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