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  ON THE
DDD CALENDAR
   
  Next week’s webinars are all about the School Achievement Report, and how to use it to do root cause analysis. Now is also the time to grab your seat at the first Promotion Predictions training webinar – see below for the details, and click on any of the links (or via the DDD Learning Hub) to reserve a spot.

TOPIC: Root cause analysis & the School Achievement Report. How to analyse school and subject performance; investigate learners failing a subject; use the data in the Excel download; and plan accordingly.
     
 
   
  TOPIC: Promotion Predictions. Get an introduction to what this new report offers; key features; how to use them; and other important points to keep in mind when using the data.
   
 
   
 
   
 
  DATA NEWS
AND UPDATES
   
  Free State officials are all fired up
and ready to go!
   
 
   
  They might be new to the national DDD Dashboard, but data-led decision-making is the norm for officials in this top-performing province. Use of the DDD Dashboard in the Free State is growing by the day, as more and more officials complete online and in-person training. Seen above are circuit managers and coordinators from Fezile Dabi Circuit and Thabo Mofutsanyane District, at training sessions last month.
 
 
     
 
   
                     
  TIPS: PROMOTION PREDICTIONS

This report is the first of its kind on DDD, so to help you understand how Promotion Predictions work, be sure to click the info (i) button in the report and read the guidelines before you start.
Click for a summary. 		    QUICK DATA IN = MORE INSIGHT OUT

Submit your final Term 2 data to DDD before trying out the Promotion Predictions report, as this will provide you with a more accurate prediction result.
Click here for term-end submission tips or for resubmission tips.		  

USE IT OR LOSE IT: AUTO DEACTIVATION

For security reasons, and from August onwards, officials who have not logged in to DDD in 12 months will find their accounts have been automatically deactivated. To prevent this, please log in regularly. 		 
                     
 
     
 
         
  WHAT TO EXPECT: A QUICK LOOK INSIDE  
 
  The Term 4 Promotion Predictions Report is available in the Reports section of the DDD Dashboard. It gives you the ability (from as early as the end of Term 1) to view the percentage of Grade R to 11 learners who are most likely to be promoted at the end of Term 4. Using the normal dashboard filters you can view the data from provincial to school level, as well as download the Excel file (including PI, if you have PI access). This means you can identify which learners are most at risk, and investigate why. It also gives you a useful way to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions from term to term.

How it works: The report uses machine learning to examine patterns in historical results, taking into account factors such as gender, grade, age vs grade, task completion percentage, task marks, exam test marks and report marks. In this way it learns which data best explains why learners succeed or struggle. Then it compares Term 1 info (or, depending on the time of year, Term 1 and 2) with these insights and predicts which learners are likely to pass. Important: The report only predicts overall Term 4 promotions, not promotion statuses, and not for individual subjects. It also excludes Grade 12s.

Try it out! Locate the Promotion Predictions report on the DDD Dashboard and click on the info (i) button for details of how it works and what it can (and can’t) do. Alternatively, read this summary of the key features. Then click on the webinar links (above, right) to book for a training session.		  
         
 
       
 
  GAME CHANGER: AMATHOLE WEST SHOWS HOW IT’S DONE
     
 

Tucked in the farmlands of Bedford in the Eastern Cape, the story of Lonwabo Senior Secondary School is a lesson in data-led learning. So says Mr Ntsikelelo Cakata, Chief Education Specialist: Curriculum, for Amathole West District, who explains that the school has transformed its pass rate from about 20%, to 90% and upwards.

“Lonwabo’s principal uses the DDD Dashboard to see where he needs to intervene,” he says. “This is part of our ‘Know your Learner’ effort, in which principals are urged to use DDD to learn their pupils’ strengths and weaknesses. Today, Lonwabo is a top performer in the district. DDD has really changed the game for them.”

Mr Cakata adds that since using DDD, Amathole West has moved from being one of the worst-performing districts in the country, to being the most improved. “DDD is central to the work we do. All our interventions are based on the insight we get from the dashboard, and therefore speak to the specific needs of our schools and learners. Without DDD we would be shooting in the dark. We wouldn’t know where to begin.”

Watch this video to hear from other district officials around the country, who are using data to share (and change) their education stories.

 
           
           
 

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