What providers have said about this discussion tool:


"I have just seen your article on nine data projects to improve provision in Talisman. This is just the sort of thing which will help providers, and much needed. Thank you very much!"(Graham Patrick, Director of Quality Improvement, Landex)

Use this Professional Discussion Tool to establish a firm base-line understanding of your provision by using data to explore your provision for improvement themes. With them you can identify key issues and strengths ahead of the inspectors, write clearer development actions with SMART targets and state what your milestones should be on the way to success. You will even be able to quantify the improvements that you have made as a result of your actions – great evidence for your ‘capacity to improve’ and ‘self assessment’ grades.

You can also download sample answers for task 1 of the Data Projects. But remember, these are a generic resource so you may have to interpret and/or adjust them to fit your particular remit.

The nine projects are:

Project 1: Applications and recruitment
Project 2: Initial assessment
Project 3: Attendance
Project 4: Progress
Project 5: Assessment
Project 6: At-risk learners
Project 7: Retention
Project 8: Achievement
Project 9: Progression