Value-Added

What is Value Added?

All schools are aiming to improve the level of their pupils’ academic knowledge. Some schools, however, manage to increase the level of the achievement of their pupils more than other schools.  It is this measure of relative advantage that has come to be called Value Added.

Yellis call this measure the residual. So the raw residual indicates how many grades a GCSE result was above or below what might have been expected.  The standardised residual indicates how unusual this “over performance" or "underperformance" was in that subject in that year. 

Standardised residuals can therefore be used to compare performances in different subjects in different years. The value added graph shows the average value added score for each subject.  This shows how well pupils in each subject achieved in comparison with similar pupils in the same subject in other schools.

Hull Collegiate School uses Yellis and MidYIS baseline tests plus Value Added Data to assess our pupils.  This means that academic progress is measured against raw ability. All pupils sit a raw ability test at the start of Years 7, 8 and 9, which enables teaching staff to assess each pupil's progress in terms of meeting individual target grades. All pupils sit the MidYIS test, either at the start of Year 7 or at their entry point into the school.

Value-Added is also assessed on a school-wide, department-wide and individual pupil level, which enables us to compare our teaching and pupil's progress against the teaching and progress in other schools.

Hull Collegiate School is committed to adding value to every pupil in the school. Our GCSE and A Level results frequently show how the school has "added" a grade higher than those predicted by the raw ability test.