Analysing Impact

To support our members to evaluate the impact of their pre-16 attainment raising interventions, HEAT provides Key Stage 4 (GCSE) exam attainment metrics for pre-16 students as part of the HEAT Track.

All Key Stage 4 exam data is supplied by the Department for Education (DfE) and prepared for the HEAT membership by the Data Team within the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) Secure Research Service.

Data and Dashboard
Key Stage 4 attainment data is provided at three different member-defined activity levels, for both participants and the comparison or control groups HEAT members are tracking. This enables members to evaluate the impact of their outreach activities using robust evaluation methods without needing to negotiate access via the DfE, as this is done once by HEAT on members’ behalf. To support members to visualise and interpret their Key Stage 4 attainment data, we provide an interactive dashboard providing instant meaningful analytics for evaluation.

Case Studies
We have worked with members to showcase the potential of HEAT‘s Key Stage 4 Track data when used optimally. Find out more in Case Studies.

To support our members to evaluate the impact of the attainment raising interventions they are delivering to students in Key Stage 5 (age 16-18) study, as part of the HEAT Track we provide A-level and equivalent exam attainment metrics for students who engaged during this phase of their education.

Like the Key Stage 4 exam data, all Key Stage 5 exam data is supplied by the Department for Education (DfE) and prepared for the HEAT membership by the Data Team within the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) Secure Research Service.

Data and Dashboard
Key Stage 5 attainment data is provided at three different member-defined activity levels, for both participants and the comparison or control groups that HEAT members are tracking. This enables members to evaluate the impact of their outreach activities using robust evaluation methods without needing to negotiate access via the DfE, as this is done once by HEAT on members’ behalf. To support members to visualise and interpret their Key Stage 5 attainment data, we provide an interactive dashboard providing instant meaningful analytics for evaluation.

To enable our members to examine the impact of their interventions on entry to, and success in, higher education, we provide higher education progression data through our linking with the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).

Data and Dashboard
HESA match records for those students recorded on the HEAT database, who are old enough to enter higher education, to find out whether or not they progressed to a UK higher education provider. Through this rich dataset, HESA are able to share student-level data on enrolment, continuation, attainment, and progression into postgraduate study or employment. This allows HEAT members to examine outcomes for their tracked students across the full student journey, from access to employment. To support members to visualise and interpret their higher education progression data, we provide an interactive dashboard providing instant meaningful analytics for evaluation.

To support our members with examining the impact of their outreach activities on access to higher education whilst also controlling for prior attainment and disadvantage, two key predictors for higher education entry, HEAT provides the Contextualised HE Entry Track dataset and dashboard.

Like Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5, data for this dataset is supplied by the Department for Education (DfE) and prepared for the HEAT membership by the Data Team within the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) Secure Research Service.

Data and Dashboard

Contextualised HE Entry Track data is provided at three member-defined activity levels, for both participants and the comparison and control groups HEAT members are tracking. This enables members to evaluate the impact of their outreach activities using robust evaluation methods without needing to negotiate access via the DfE, as this is done once by HEAT on members’ behalf. To support members to visualise and interpret their Contextualised HE Entry Track data, we provide an interactive dashboard providing instant meaningful analytics for evaluation.

HEAT Groups
This type of data underpins the HEAT Groups research. This is HEAT’s student classification model which segments students according to their background, recognising that disadvantaged students are not one homogenous group. The HEAT Groups allow us to compare similar students in terms of their likelihood of progressing to Higher Education and therefore make more robust claims about the impact our interventions are having on certain student groups.