Performance analysis surfaces patterns across a student’s assessment history: a subject slipping against their own prior performance, a component they consistently lose marks on, a change that coincides with attendance. It describes what happened. It does not predict what a child is capable of.
This is descriptive. Any tool claiming to forecast a child’s potential is selling a labelling system, and labels applied to eleven-year-olds are very hard to remove.
A subject teacher sees their own subject. A class teacher sees forty students across all of them. The pattern that matters — a student who has slipped in three subjects since September, in the same weeks their attendance changed — is visible to neither without somebody sitting down with a spreadsheet.
Ranking a student against their cohort tells you something they and their family already know. Comparing them against their own prior performance tells you something new: this student is doing worse than they were, which is actionable regardless of where they sit in the class.
The same logic applies to the strong student who has quietly dropped from ninety to seventy-eight and is still comfortably top of the section. Nobody notices, because the ranking has not moved.
Each of these is technically straightforward and several are routinely sold. We think they cause more harm than they remove, and the harm falls on children who cannot contest it.
Phrased the way they arrive, answered so each one stands on its own.
No, and it will not. Predicted grades on partial data become verdicts a family acts on, and the student carries the consequence.
Not automatically. It goes to the class teacher, who decides whether and how to raise it. Automating that conversation does harm.
No. Comparison is against the student’s own history, within your school. There is no cross-school model.
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