Watch this video to learn why a Unit Grade and Average Unit Grade may differ 👇
Why Average Unit Grades may differ to actual Unit Grades
Your Pupil Progress trackers are a really helpful tool for producing an accurate working-at grade when students haven't yet completed work for all of their units.
However, this can sometimes cause minor confusion when it seems that their unit grades are at odds with their overall grade.
This tends to be because the tracker uses notional grade boundaries for each unit, but then the overall grade boundaries in the summary section.
In cases where you're wanting to use a unit or assessment grade as students' overall grade, you can now add a Flexi Grade alongside the Average Unit Grade, to view and report for each data point 👇
For example
To highlight a case of discrepancies, we'll take a look at GCSE AQA MFL as an example, although this is consistent with GCSE and A-Level qualifications.
The 10/It1 class in the example below have only completed work for the Listening unit (Unit 1), with no data in the tracker currently for Units 2, 3 and 4.
However, as you can see, their Average Units Grades are mostly lower than the grade they received for that particular unit:
Whilst it would be understandable that what they have achieved on this unit are also their current working-at grades, this is not always the case.
As we can see in the image below, the grade boundaries for Unit 1 (which are visible on your tracker by opening the Tools menu on the left hand side, and clicking Change under 'Grade Boundaries') are substantially lower than those for Units 2, 3 and 4.
The student Elizabeth Bennett has achieved 40/50 on Unit 1, which according to the grade boundaries being used on the tracker would give her a grade 9.
However, the same grade would require 53 marks on Unit 2 and 51 on the other units (if scaled to the same max marks).
Of course, if you have any further questions, please reach out to our Support team.
📖 Pupil Progress Tip
You can amend which assessments are counting towards your Summary Grades, by heading to Edit Assessments on the left menu.