Pupil Achievement Tracker (PAT)

The Pupil Achievement Tracker (PAT) software allows schools and LEAs to import and analyse their own pupil performance data against national performance data. There are four main areas of analysis possible in the PAT:

School level analyses, comparing the school's results in the key stages and optional tests against national comparatives.
Pupil level value added, comparing the progress of individual pupils or groups of pupils between key stages with progress nationally taking account of prior attainment and other contextual factors.
Target setting, assisting the school to set targets for individual pupils in the light of projections based on progress by similar pupils in the best performing schools with a similar baseline.
Question level analysis, allowing schools to analyse by question attainment target and topic how their pupils performed in the national curriculum tests and optional tests compared to performance nationally.

PAT produces a range of reports from the four areas of analysis outlined above, including the new Schools Improvement Summary Report.

The PAT contains national data, previously known as the Autumn Package.

As with PANDA reports, PAT enables a school to compare their results with national results. However, PAT goes further; it is interactive and enables you to review individual pupils and groups of pupils. PAT also enables question-level analysis of tests and is a very useful tool for target-setting.

Value-added graphs in PAT enable comparison between the progress of individual pupils with the progress of pupils nationally with similar attainment at the previous key stage. This enables a school to consider issues such as which pupils or groups of pupils have made significantly better or worse progress than others, and whether the reasons for this can be identified. A school can filter the results according to pupils and print out reports according to your own criteria.

PAT has a tool specifically designed for target-setting. It helps schools to compare their performance against the top quartile of schools in similar circumstances and to set challenging pupil-based targets.

Using the PAT, each teacher is able to view on screen the prior attainment of their pupils. They are able to see on screen possible targets for each child based on the recent progress made by pupils similar to theirs, taking account of their prior attainment. They can then decide what targets to set for each pupil, before reviewing the impact these targets will have on the overall progress made by pupils in their school

Schools can add extra information and analyse performance according to it, for example:

Flags on pupils doing booster classes
Flags on pupils with learning mentors
Attendance record
Length of time on the roll

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