Analysing performance by class & paper

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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 for subjects assessed on more than one paper. A single-paper subject's ranking is already covered in By subject, so it does not get a second, identical row here.
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 at or above your school's pass mark. It defaults to 50 and is set tenant-wide from Dashboard → Assessment → Assessment Sets.
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.

These averages include unsubmitted marks

Unlike report cards and the marksheet, this page counts marks that are still a draft — a Dean looking at a class mid-marking wants the live picture, not a figure that pretends half the term has not happened.