How to find which class is behind and which paper is dragging it down.
Before you start
- Marks have been entered for the term (see Entering student marks).
- A grading scale is configured for the department, otherwise grade spreads will be empty (see Primary grades, aggregates & divisions).
- The page is available to Admins, Headmasters and Deans of Studies. Teachers do not have access.
Steps
- Go to Dashboard → Assessment → Performance.
- Pick the Term (it opens on the current term) and optionally a Department to narrow to Nursery, Primary, O-Level or A-Level.
- Read the class × paper grid. Each cell is that class's average on that paper, with a subject's papers grouped under its name. A subject with only one paper gets a single column. Click a class row to narrow the whole page to it; click again to clear.
- In By class, click a row to expand it and see the split across its streams.
- In By subject, see where each subject is strongest and weakest across the classes that take it; By paper repeats that one level down.
- Switch to Year trend to compare every term in the academic year. Tick up to six classes to plot them on the chart; the tables below cover all of them.
Why papers, not just subjects
Marks are entered against a paper, so that is the finest level the analysis can reach — and it is usually where the problem actually is. A class averaging 62 in Mathematics looks unremarkable until the grid splits it into Paper 1 at 82 and Paper 2 at 42. The subject roll-up is still there in By subject for the higher-level view.
Papers with the same name under the same subject are treated as one column across classes, so P.5 Paper 1 and P.6 Paper 1 can be compared side by side.
Reading the numbers
- Average is the same figure the marksheet and report card use — papers are averaged within an assessment set first, then the sets are combined by weight or by plain mean depending on your scoring mode.
- Pass rate is the share of subject scores of 50 or above.
- Grade spread counts how many scores fell in each grade of your school's grading scale.
- A dash (—) means no marks have been entered, which is not the same as a score of zero. A paper nobody has sat is left out of the school average entirely.
- A dot (·) in the grid means that paper is not sat by that class.
Because the averages come from the same rule as report cards, a figure here should always agree with what a class teacher sees on the marksheet for the same term.
Who sees teacher names
The grid can show the teacher assigned to each class-subject beneath its average. This is limited to Admins and Headmasters — Deans of Studies see the full analysis without the teacher names, and the names are withheld by the server rather than merely hidden on screen.