Classroom Monitor Training Centre
  • Online courses
    • Course A1: Assessing with Classroom Monitor
    • Course A1a: Classroom Monitor for Early Years
    • Course A2: Making the most of Classroom Monitor
    • Course B1: Data Analysis for SLT - Beginner
    • Course B2: Data Analysis for SLT - Advanced
    • Course B3: Data for teachers
    • Course C1: Written Reports
    • Course C2: Online Reports
    • Course D1: Curriculum Customisation Tool
  • Help Files
    • What's New?
    • Getting started >
      • Setting Up Classroom Monitor >
        • The MIS Synchronisation Tool
        • Importing a CTF
        • Setting up teacher accounts
        • Refining your setup >
          • User Management
          • Pupil Management
          • Group Management
      • Your teacher/SLT account >
        • Using your teacher account
        • The Homepage
        • Creating pupil groups
        • Removing practice data
      • Help and Guidance
    • Classroom Monitor 2018 >
      • Markbook >
        • Markbook Quick Start
        • Loading a markbook
        • Markbook Assessment mode
        • Markbook Evidence mode
        • Markbook Reporting mode
      • Attainment and Progress Reports >
        • Expectations Settings
        • School Overview
        • Year Group Overview
        • Class Group Overview
        • Class Report
        • A&P Reports Admin
      • CM Training Academy
    • Assessment Markbooks >
      • The New Markbook
      • The Class Markbook >
        • Recording Assessment in the Class Markbook
        • Speeding up Assessment
        • Saving scores
        • Printing the Class Markbook
        • Planning with the Class Markbook
        • Evidence of learning
        • Accessing the Class Markbook
      • The Pupil Markbook >
        • Accessing the Pupil Markbook
        • Recording Assessment in the Pupil Markbook
        • Speeding up Assessment in the Pupil Markbook
        • Scoring Pupils in the Pupil Markbook
        • Saving Evidence in the Pupil Markbook
        • Printing the Pupil Markbook
      • Assessment Summaries >
        • Learning Journey (Evidence Based)
        • Pupil Assessment Summary
        • Class Assessment Summary
        • Assessment Progress Report
      • Mobile devices >
        • Classroom Monitor App >
          • Download App
          • Login to App
          • Record Assessment in App
          • Record evidence in App
        • Mobile markbook >
          • Recording assessment in the mobile markbook
          • Recording evidence in the mobile markbook
    • Attainment and Progress >
      • New Attainment and Progress Reports
      • Homepage Favourites >
        • Updated Classroom Monitor Favourites
        • Setting your school favourites
        • Your Favourites
      • Pupil Tracking >
        • Pupil Tracking Tables
        • Pupil Tracking Graphs
        • Export pupil data to Excel
      • Group Tracking >
        • Group Tracking Tables
        • Group Tracking Graphs
        • Exporting group data to Excel
      • Curriculum Tracking
      • Attainment Targets >
        • Setting Attainment Targets
        • Displaying Targets in tables
        • Displaying Targets in graphs
        • Exporting targets
        • Editing Targets
      • Advanced Features >
        • Advanced Pupil Selection
        • Analysis Filters
        • Comparing Data
        • Creating Groups in Attainment and Progress
    • Reporting >
      • Written Reports >
        • Written report setup
        • Using the Report Editor
        • Using markbook assessments
        • Using the statement bank
        • Generating reports
        • Setting report templates
      • Online reports
    • Admin Help >
      • Account Management >
        • User Management
        • Pupil Management
        • Group Management
        • Transferring Pupils between schools
      • Customise Classroom Monitor for your School >
        • Customise school curriculum
        • Setting Homepage Favourites
        • A&P Reports Admin
        • Customise Assessment Terminology
        • Customise subjects and assessment criteria
        • Creating Additional Grades
      • Importing & Exporting Data >
        • Import Assessment Data
        • Pupil Import Tool >
          • Pupil Import Tool - adding new
          • Pupil Import Tool - adding missing
          • UAE Pupil Import Tool
        • EExBA Data Import
        • Export CTF (end of KS data)
      • Reporting to Parents admin >
        • Written Reporting to Parents
        • Online Reporting to Parents
      • School Usage stats
    • Help Videos >
      • Assessment Markbooks videos
      • Attainment and Progress videos
      • Reporting to parents videos
      • Admin videos
  • Webinars
  • Blog
  • Advice
    • Making the Most of Classroom Monitor >
      • Best practice for teachers
      • Interpreting your data
      • SEND - Making the Most of Classroom Monitor
      • Outputs for Pupils/Parents
    • Customising your approach >
      • Markbook objectives
      • Terminology
      • Markbook scoring
    • Sharing with Stakeholders >
      • Sharing with Teachers
      • Sharing with SLT
      • Sharing with Governors
      • Sharing with Parents
      • Sharing with Pupils
      • Sharing with LA/Ofsted
    • Assessment without Levels >
      • Why did the DfE get rid of levels?
      • How can we avoid recreating levels?
      • How do we get data without levels?
      • How do we ensure impact on pupil progress?
      • What info should we share within school?
      • What info should we share externally?
    • National Curriculum 2014 Support >
      • For Teachers/SLT
      • For governors
      • For parents
    • Help Using Classroom Monitor
    • NC14 FAQs
  • Frameworks
  • FAQs
  • MIS sync

Sharing information with the LA/Ofsted


Although we are not wanting to recreate levels of any kind, it is useful to have some overall data to aid the SLT in resourcing and planning whole school strategies and interventions. This information can also form part of, or the basis of, the information you share with the LA, our SIP, or Ofsted. What is important, however, is to be very aware of which pieces of information could hamper discussions and which would help to ease discussions. In other words, which pieces of data will confuse and which will be informative?

One immediate example of this is 'points'. Classroom Monitor has some 'points' or 'steps' in the background which are required to produce graphs. However, it may be useful to not focus discussions around these 'points' as there are such entrenched views held on points for people used to working with the old APS. 
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Our Interpreting your Data page has some useful videos which will help to illustrate how and when to use the 'points' and when these may be harmful in terms of an understanding of progress. It is well known that learning is not necessarily a linear and predictable journey and this is why the school will "own" their own progress within a Key Stage. A child may not have made their way through a set boundary in December, but may suddenly progress in January. Therefore, sharing information at arbitrary points of the year will not give any necessarily useful or accurate data and could hamper discussions if this data becomes a sticking point due to a misunderstanding of how this data is working or being used within your school.
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However, all of the data sitting in the background within Classroom Monitor will, of course, give your SLT the information they need to help support teachers to impact on teaching and learning. The narrative around the data is what will be really useful within the year and can form the basis of any discussions with outside agencies regarding progress within the Key Stage - and, most crucially, for you to show how YOU use the data to make an impact across the school. Data will be more accurate at the end of the year rather than in December, certainly, but even then your obligation is not to share anything other than the information you ordinarily use to impact on the achievements of the pupils in your care and there is no national expectation that this is laid out in any particular way.

This means, with a lack of consistency, that a short Ofsted visit could end up with a lot of time taken up by unnecessary data if you need to spend a lot of time explaining your terminology and thresholds. Therefore, we would recommend sticking to terms such as "Working within age related expectations" as your terminology for these visits. If you are not sure how to find out how many children in each year group fall into these groups you can have a discussion with the Classroom Monitor Education Team or look through the Interpreting your Data pages for more ideas.

The main thing to consider is that if YOU find it difficult to explain your data then it isn't working! Feel free to get in touch with our Head of Education if you feel this is the case and would like to unpick some of the choices you can make to assist with ensuring that your school assessment process is a help and not a hindrance.

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