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Consistently Proven to Raise Attainment
Independent educational charity Fischer Family Trust has produced a fifth research report analysing the impact of e-Learning on the 2006 KS2 SAT (ages 7-11), KS3 SAT (Ages 11-13) and GCSE (ages 14-16) results of 396,812 pupils across England. The report confirms that as little as 10 task hours’ use of SAM Learning is enough to start improving attainment.
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| Helping schools improve at KS2 |
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Based on the Key Stage 2 results of 28,029 pupils, the FFT report shows that pupils using SAM Learning for more than 10 hours “achieved significantly higher progress than similar prior attainment pupils nationally”.
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Schools can increase the number of pupils achieving Level 4 and above in all core subjects. In top using schools up to 15% more pupils achieved Level 4 or above compared to previous results.
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| Helping schools improve at KS3 |
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Schools looking to improve results at GCSE start by introducing SAM Learning Secondary in Year 9, organising revision programmes in the run up to SATS. Students make extensive use of the service at home too. The objective is to help more students to level 4 in the core subjects which in turn improves their prospects for attaining grade C at GCSE.
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| The FFT research shows that students with 10 or more task hours made significantly more progress than other students with similar prior attainment. |
| Numbers of students achieving level 5 or above was 3% higher and those achieving level 6 or above 3.8% higher than for similar students nationally.
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| Helping schools improve at GCSE |
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5+A*-C GCSE passes including English and Mathematics is the new measure for school performance. Schools using SAM Learning Secondary have seen more students than expected achieved this standard.
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| The FFT research shows gains for lower and middle prior attainment students with up to 10 task hours was around one third of a grade, equivalent to nearly 30% of students achieving one grade higher than expected.
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| More high-performing 5+A*/A students with SAM Learning Secondary! |
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Students who scored at level 5 or above in KS3 SATs still benefit from using SAM Learning Secondary as part of their revision programme.
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The average value-added performance in this higher prior attainment group was nearly 1.8% equivalent to 5% more students than expected achieving 5+A*/A grades.
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| SAM Learning Ltd. |
SAM Learning is the award winning online subscription service used in two thirds of schools across the country, schools who want to support their students in improving results at Key Stage 2 SATs, Key Stage 3 SATS and at GCSE. In 2007 over 800,000 pupils accumulated 3 million hours of use on SAM Learning. In the weeks leading up to the exams, over 80,000 students a day were logging into SAM Learning from home or school.
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| Fischer Family Trust |
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Fischer Family Trust is an independent charity that has developed a range of analyses as part of a project to promote the effective analysis and use of performance data. Value-added models have been developed using national datasets, following agreement with DfES.
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