SISRA Online : Students Report

This report is incredibly useful and has a vast range of different uses. It lists all the students in a particular year group and can be used to look at examination results, mocks, targets or assessments. It is also available when using the pupil tracker.

It shows grade count, average points, total points and capped eight points scores for each student as well as their progress from Key Stage 2 in English, maths and science. In addition, by clicking on a student's name, a detailed individual report can be obtained.

By using the appropriate filters, you will also be able to list selected groups of students. For example; boys, girls, those students receiving free school meals or on the SEN register or any combination of these. So when OFSTED asks you for a list of statemented girls on free school meals you will be able to provide this at the click of a mouse!

You will also be able to identify quickly those students with a particular set of results using the filters on the right-hand side of the report. For example, those students obtaining five or more A*-C grades including English, but excluding maths.
The report also has a very useful sort facility allowing students to be ranked in a variety of different ways.

When OFSTED asks you for a list of statemented girls on free school meals you will be able to provide this at the click of a mouse.

However, the report becomes particularly powerful when the “compare to targets” filter is selected. This makes it very easy to identify students who are underachieving and may require intervention. For example; students who are achieving five or more A*-C grades including English and excluding maths but who are targeted to obtain a higher grade for both English and maths, a very important group, can be quickly listed. Additional help with maths will then hopefully allow these students to achieve their targets and, therefore, improve one of the school’s most important performance measures.

Selecting the “compare to targets” filter also gives a very good indication of a student’s overall progress. For example, students can be quickly ranked by the average points difference between the grade set being looked at and their targets. Doing this in ascending order allows students who are underachieving to be identified and, just as importantly, doing this in descending order allows those making good overall progress to be seen. This is a particularly useful feature for staff such as heads of year or house.

The individual student report, using the “compare to targets” filter, is also very useful. It can be used by heads of year or house and form tutors as a basis for valuable discussions with students and their parents as it gives all a student's grades and targets in one easily understood, colour-coded report.

In conclusion, the student report will save you hours of time, allowing you as it does to quickly identify individuals or groups who are underachieving. In this way your valuable time can be spent actually helping these students rather than simply identifying them!