RAISEonline
Purpose
A joint Department for Education (DfE) and Office of Standards in
Education (Ofsted) web based school performance analysis tool. It is
used to inform the school self evaluation process which underpins
school inspection.
First released with 2005 national pupil level data for assessments at Key
Stages 1, 2, 3 and 4 (7, 11, 14 and 16 year olds).
Now containing pupil data for more than 6 million pupils across more
than 21,000 state schools. This represents 95% of all children in
schools.
RAISEonline and the English education
system (simplified)
 England has a National Curriculum with National Key Stage
assessments at ages 7, 11, 14 and 16.
 Key Stage 1 ages 6 and 7
– At age 7 Key Stage 1 teacher assessments of attainment in reading,
writing and mathematics take place. This data is loaded into
RAISEonline
 Key Stage 2 ages 8, 9, 10 and 11 (end of primary)
– At age 11 Key Stage 2 tests of attainment take place in English and
mathematics. This data is loaded into RAISEonline
 Key Stage 3 ages 12, 13 and 14
– At age14 Key Stage 3 teacher assessments are made.
 Key Stage 4 ages 15 and 16 (end of secondary)
– General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) Examinations and
other equivalent qualifications take place. This data is loaded into
RAISEonline
RAISEonline access
RAISEonline is a secure password protected system.
Ofsted ensure that users access to the system protects sensitive data.
Only school users have access to pupil identities.
Other users (including school inspectors) do not have access to pupil identities.
Parents do not have access to RAISEonline.
Parents and the wider public are provided with extensive school level
accountability data through the School Performance Tables which are published
annually by the Department for Education.
www.education.gov.uk/performancetables/
Secure website with differentiated
access for different users to
protect pupil identities.
The “full report” is used by school
inspectors to inform their
understanding of the historic
performance of the school across
a wide range of pupil attainment
and progress measures.
The “full report” contains a limited
subset of the interactive reports
within the system. The choice of
reports is decided by Ofsted.
This information is private to the
school and can be added to by the
school if they choose.
Test and teacher assessments are
collected centrally and stored.
The levels and marks of
components of the tests are also
included
Schools may
choose to add the
test item data
themselves to
enable a greater
depth of self
evaluation to take
place.
A school
level
progress
measure
Materially deprived
pupil
English is not their
first language
Question level Analysis
The following is available if a school chooses to enter it’s question
level data into their own RAISEonline
Assessment
focus 6 is a
strength
Assessment foci
3 and 4 are
areas for
development
Assessment focus analysis
This type of analysis can inform the planning of further
learning experiences and interventions
Local Government RAISEonline
A development to support the self evaluation of area wide pupil
performance
Filtering the analysis
Grouping an analysis
Issues

The RAISEonline system needs to respond to change
– As education policy has changed so must RAISEonline. This has included
changes to the Key Stage assessments and changes to national school
performance indicators

There is a constant requirement to be vigilant with data protection

Balancing speed of data delivery in the system each year with robustness of
analyses

Data literacy
– The levels of data literacy amongst all users is variable
– Data literacy must not be assumed to be in place or straightforward to provide.
How do you train more than 200,000 users of the system?
– Investment in a range of training materials has been necessary

Software ages quickly
– The current design and functionality of RAISEonline is more than 5 years old
and the current interface reflects this
Martin Kaliszewski
Centre for British Teachers (CfBT)
mkaliszewski@cfbt.com
martin.kaliszewski@education.gsi.gov.uk