SISRA KS4 Report Guide: Class Teacher
SISRA KS4 Report Guide: Class Teacher
As a Class Teacher you will probably be most interested in the in the progress of the students in your
department in general and that of the students in your own class(es) in particular. SISRA has a number of
reports to help you with this.
Once you have logged into SISRA, click the reports button at the top of the page (A1) then select the Key
Stage 4 tab (A2) to view the reports in that key stage. You can then use the Report Buttons (A3) to enter
the different reports. You can hover over any of these icons to display the report title.
For guidance on navigating between reports see Appendix 2: Navigating between reports.
The reports described below can all be used to analyse exams, mocks, targets and assessments data sets.
Advice on the use of the tracker data set reports can be found later in this guide. N.B. When looking at the
reports in the assessments data set you can select which data set you want to analyse using the drop down
menu (A4) towards the top left of the screen:
For example, in the report above this drop down has been used to select the Summer assessments for
analysis.
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Grades Report
This report can be used to look at the overall performance of your subject and can be seen by clicking on
the Grades Report Icon ( ) on the reports home page.
For example, in the report above, it can be seen that 61% of students obtained an A*-C grade in
Mathematics, with an average points score of 38.31. There were also very few A* grades (3) in this subject
and a large number of D and E grades (50).
To compare to targets click the
icon under the Compare To filter in Filters (1)
(A5) then select Targets from the drop down box (A6). For more help with filters
please see Appendix 1: Applying Filters.
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When the compare to targets figure is included, as shown above, it can be seen that 18.45% of students in
Mathematics exceeded their target grades, 51.79% achieved their target grades and 29.76% failed to
achieve their target. This gives a much better idea of overall performance than by simply comparing the %
of students obtaining an A*- C grade (obtained by clicking on the pie chart icon ( ) on the top right of the
page (A7)).
Grades Report with Compare to Target and View Grade Percentages
(This is an excerpt of data from the report that would be shown when viewing this report for illustrative purposes)
This shows that, in Mathematics, the 61% of students obtaining an A*-C grade exactly matched the target
figure, despite 29.76% of them failing to achieve their actual target grade.
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Next, use the grades report to look at the performances of the different classes in each of the subjects you
teach, clicking on the relevant subject name in the overall grades report to obtain this information. Clicking
on a subject Mathematics:
Grades Report Sub Report: Classes (clicking on a subject name)
For example, the grades for each of the seven mathematics classes can be seen in the report above.
These show a pattern common to setted subjects, with the % A*-A, A*-C and A*-G grades all decreasing
down the list, as does the average points score for each class.
This can also be shown in graphical format by clicking on the bar chart icon (
page (A8) or compared to targets as described above. This is shown below:
) on the top right of the
Grades Report Sub Report: Classes (Bar Chart View for Mathematics)
(This is an excerpt of data from the report that would be shown when viewing this report for illustrative purposes)
Next, use the grades report to get a detailed results list for each of your classes, once again using the
compare to targets feature to see how results matched expectations. You can do this by clicking on the
class name (A9) in the grades report described above.
A summary table is also included at the bottom of this list as shown below:
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In addition, the students can be filtered to show a particular grade by selecting a grade from the grade drop
down menu at the top of the reports (B1) and can be sorted by clicking on any of the column headings
(B2).
By setting the Grade drop down to “Show All”, then clicking on the “Diff” column heading, it is possible to
see the entire class ordered by the point score equivalent difference between what they achieved in this
data set compared to what they achieved in the data set you are comparing to. So if you were looking at
the exams data set compared to targets (as shown below) it is the difference between what the student
achieved in their exams compared to what they were targeted to achieve.
This shows that, amongst other things, 3 students in the class exceeded their target grade, 6 achieved their
target and 4 were below target.
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It is also possible at this level to see various summary information about each of the students, on the right
hand side of the report there are 4 columns (B3) which show the Total A*-C, Total A*-G and whether the
student achieved an A*-C in English and A*-C in Maths.
So, in the above example, we can see that THOMPSON Emma has achieved 3.0 A*-C’s including English
but not Maths, and for Maths she has a grade G.
Finally, if you want to look at the overall results for an individual student, simply click on their name to
obtain their individual student report. This might be useful if you want to see if a student who has
underachieved in your subject has also done the same elsewhere, suggesting it might be a pastoral issue
rather than a subject one!
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Residual Report
Use the residuals report to compare how well the subject you teach has done compared to other subjects in
the school, preferably including national residuals to get a more accurate picture.
To include National Residuals in the calculations set the National Residuals drop down box in Filters (2) on
the right (B4) to include (if there is not an option to include National Residual figures they may not have
been added by your SISRA Administrator and you should contact them for more information).
If there is a lot of data it can be useful to rotate the chart using the Rotate Icon (B5) to see the data
vertically instead of horizontally.
For example, in the report above, the residual for Mathematics is –0.73, showing that, on average, students
did not perform significantly differently in that subject than they did, on average, in all the subjects that they
sat. However, students in French and German have residuals of -4.27 and -6 respectively showing that, on
average, they significantly underperformed in these subjects, obtaining over two thirds of a grade less in
French, and a grade less in German, than they did, on average, in all the subjects that they sat.
Remember, when using the residuals report, that a residual of +6, for example, means that students are
achieving, on average, one grade higher in that subject than they are, on average, in all the subjects that
they are studying (a detailed explanation of how SISRA calculates residuals can be found in the on-line
user guide).
Click on the relevant subject bar in the Residuals Report to drill down to see the classes Residuals Report
(as shown on the next page) and, using the compare to class view (B6), look at the relevant performances
of your classes compared to the other classes in your subject:
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Results Versus Subject Class view including National Residuals
This has the effect of “levelling the playing field” as the report compares the average performance of the
students in each class in your subject with the average performance of those same students in all the
subjects that they sat. This shows that, on average, set 3 actually did better than set 2 and set 6 did better
than set 5, something which was not immediately obvious by simply comparing the raw data in the grades
report discussed above.
Click on the relevant class bar in the classes Residual Report to drill down to the students Residual Report
and, using the compare to student view, look at the relevant performances of each student in your classes
compared to their overall performance. In particular look at how many students in each of your classes did
better or worse than they did overall. Obviously, if the majority of students in a class did better in your
subject than they did overall this means you have done a pretty good job. Sadly this is not the case in the
example below where only five out of thirteen students in the class obtained a better grade in mathematics
than they did on average in all the subjects that they sat. However, two of these, Simon Pegg and Faran
Tahir scored over two grades higher in mathematics than they did on average, quite an achievement!
If there is a lot of data it can be useful to rotate the chart using the Rotate Icon (B7) to see the data
vertically instead of horizontally.
If you want to look at the overall results for an individual student, simply click on the bar above their name
to obtain their individual student report.
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English Baccalaureate Report
If the subject you teach contributes to the English Baccalaureate you might like to use this report to get
more information about this. For example, you will be able to identify students who are failing to achieve
this performance measure because they are not achieving an A*-C grade in your class and plan some
intervention to help them.
Please note, due to the Science subject area requiring 2 grades of C or above, it is possible that you may
see a grade of C or above but still have the cell highlighted in red as SISRA will only display one grade in
this column.
Filters (2) (B8) can be used to select all the students in the year group, or those who have passed or failed
the English Baccalaureate, whilst Filters (1) can be used in the usual way. In addition, the results of an
individual student can be viewed by clicking on their name in the list.
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Progress from Key Stage 2 Report
With the importance of the number of levels of progress from KS2 to KS4 as a whole school indicator,
particularly in English and mathematics, this report will give be of considerable help to you if you teach
classes in one of these subjects:
Clicking on an individual subject will allow you to drill down to class level in an identical way to that
described for the Grades Report above, and, once again, the data can be obtained in graphical format if
required:
Once again, by selecting the compare to targets feature, pupils requiring intervention can be identified as
described in the Grades Report above.
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Assessment Tracker Data Set Reports
These reports are very useful for looking at the progress of your classes across a year or Key Stage and
the ones which you will probably find most useful are the Grades Tracker Report (
Tracker Report (
), the Residuals
) and, if you teach English, mathematics or science, the Progress from Key Stage 2
Tracker Report ( ). These all allow up to four sets of assessments (nominated by your SISRA
administrator) to be compared to targets, mocks or exams. In addition, Filters (1) can be used in the usual
way to look at various sub-groups of students.
An example of the Grades Tracker Report is shown below, using Filters (1) to select compare to targets
and female students and the Report Content drop-down to show Total A*-C grades:
This shows that the % A*-C grades for girls in Mathematics increased steadily during the four assessment
periods shown but did not exceed the target % until the Summer.
Individual class data can be obtained in the usual way by clicking on the required subject, as shown below
for the six mathematics classes:
Lists for the classes you teach can then be obtained by clicking on the relevant class names.
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An example of the Residuals Tracker Report is shown below:
This shows, for example, that students in mathematics, on average, exceeded their target residual in each
of the four assessment points shown.
Once again, data for each class can be obtained by clicking on the relevant subject name in the list:
Individual class lists can then be obtained by clicking on the relevant class name.
The Progress from Key Stage 2 Tracker Report, for teachers of English, mathematics and science, works in
a similar way and so is not explained in detail here.
The Assessment Tracker Reports will allow you to easily analyse progress across a year or Key
Stage. You can obviously analyse individual data sets in more detail using the other reports
described earlier.
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Appendix 1: Applying Filters
On each of the reports you will see Filters (1) on the left hand side of the report, these filters
can be applied in any order and you can have as many applied at once as you wish. To apply
a filter click the
icon under the filter you wish to apply, this will expand the filter and give you
the options to select one or more values depending on the filter you are applying.
Filters such as Compare To, Gender, Gift/Talent, FSM and CIC (LAC) will have
a drop down box where you can select the option you want to (C1).
For the other filters such as Focus Groups, Ethnicity, SENcode and KS2 Avg are multiselect filters, meaning you can select more than one value at the same time (C2).
You can either select multiple values by:
• holding the left mouse button down and dragging the pointer to select a few entries
• hold down the left control key (Ctrl) and left click the values to add or remove them
It is worth noting that when you add a filter in this way a small “Wait..” indicator will appear
beneath the filter indicating the report is being updated.
To remove a filter you can simply click the icon under the filter you wish to remove (C3),
this will remove just that one filter or you can click the reset all at the top or bottom of Filters
(1) (C4)to reset all the filters you have applied.
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Appendix 2: Navigating between reports
There are multiple ways of navigating around the reports, this short guide will give you an overview of this.
Once you have logged into SISRA, click the reports button at the top of the page (D1) then select the key
stage tab (D2) to view the reports in that key stage. You can then use the Report Buttons (D3) to enter the
different reports, you can hover over any of these icons to display the report title.
Once you are in a report if there are Report Buttons at the top of the page (D4) you can click on the name
of the report you want to navigate to that report.
You can also click the dataset name at the top of the report (in the example here MOCKS shown in (D5)) to
open a small window which will list all the reports available, clicking on a report name will navigate to that
report.