Grading and Admissions Data England Ofqual
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Summary
Deidentified data linking Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation, Department for Education, and Universities and Colleges Admissions Service data.
Description
The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) data includes information on each GCSE and A level qualification as provided by awarding organisations and taken by pupils in England, regardless of their age. The backbone of the Ofqual data is the summer awarding data, that is the data collected for each qualification taken by pupils prior to grades being issued to centres and students in August each year. The Ofqual data will also include the grade awarded to pupils who asked for a review of marking and moderation. The qualifications dataset includes detailed information on the qualifications taken (eg subject, awarding organisation, tier of entry), as well as granular data on pupils attainment (eg grades and marks). Information about pupils, such as gender and age, is also contained in this dataset. For 2020, given that exams were cancelled and alternative approaches to grading taken, each entry was associated with a centre assessment grade and calculated grade, which were used to determine the awarded grade. These alternative grading approaches will also be included in the qualifications dataset, along with details of pupils’ prior attainment: an indicator of Key Stage 2 attainment for GCSE pupils, indicators of GCSE attainment for A level students. In addition to the qualifications dataset, Ofqual data features two more data tables: a centres dataset with key information on the school or college attended (type and geographical location), a grade boundaries dataset which allows to interpret the marks in the main qualifications dataset.
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About this data
- Data creator
- Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation
- Temporal coverage
- 01 January 2017 to 31 December 2022
- Frequency
- Annual
- Dataset theme
- Education
- Restrictions for access
- Access for all accredited researchers
- Project approval
- Projects must be accredited and have approval from the data owner
- Search keywords
- Demography Education ADR Young People
Metadata
Metadata
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Dataset themeMain category for the topic of the resource
- Education
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Dataset resource typeThe type of the dataset resource
- Administrative
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Geographic coverageThe geographic area covered by the dataset
- England
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Temporal coverageThe timeframes covered by these data
- 01 January 2017 to 31 December 2022
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FrequencyThe frequency at which the dataset resource is published or updated
- Annual
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Geographic levelThe lowest level of geography covered by the dataset
- County
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Data creatorThe name of the organisation that produced or published this resource
- Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation
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Data contributorsThe name(s) of any organisation(s), other than the data supplier or provider, that have data which are included in this dataset resource
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Licensing statusThe license used for making this resource available and defining how it can be used
- Restricted
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Disclosure controlThe standard or bespoke disclosure control rules that apply to this dataset
- Standard disclosure rules apply
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Restrictions for accessRestrictions for users and researchers accessing data in Google Cloud Platform
- Access for all accredited researchers
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Research outputsThe approval route researchers must take for their outputs to be published
- Research outputs must be sent to the data owner
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Project approvalThe project approvals needed for this resource
- Projects must be accredited and have approval from the data owner
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Research disclaimerThe disclaimer required to be published with the outputs for this dataset
- No requirements
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AcronymAny other names or acronyms used to refer to the data
- GRADE
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IDS Business Catalogue identifierThe identifier for this dataset resource
- 0.0293
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ProvenanceDetails of how this dataset resource came to be generated
- Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation Grading and Admissions Data