Bar Reports for Attainment Data

In a recent discussion with James Pembroke, he suggested various different ways to manipulate and display our junior school data in order to analyse it. One of these was to create 'Bar Reports' for each cohort as they pass through the school.

When thinking about how to do this, Excel, Numbers, G Sheets and other applications were an option, but I went with PowerPoint so that I could have more control over how the finish product looked.

In PowerPoint, I created arrays of 100 squares and then coloured these according to the percentages we'd assessed children at. A slightly time-consuming process, but well worth it and something that has shown us aspects of our assessment, attainment and progress that we had not previously seen.

The three pictures here are completely fictional and in no way represent any school, children or their data.

On Dropbox, is the template and an example. I hope it's useful. Any comments or suggestions, please share.

PosteRazor Data

Looking at data, or any information about groups, cohorts or whole school, on pieces of paper? Why not stick it up on the wall? Large.

We recently did and it helped look at it in a different light, as a group, pointing at things - stepping forwards and backwards. In addition to on-screen and printed A4 paper.

How did we do it? The paper copies that were to be handed out to those at the meeting were also saved as picture files and enlarged with the program 'PosteRazor'. They were printed, put together and stuck on the wall.

It worked quite well. They stayed on the wall for a while too, to allow us to keep glancing at it.

PosteRazor that data (and more fun and engaging things)...