Student Pathways Survey / Plan

1. Student Pathways Survey / Plan A joint initiative between: Vocational Education in Schools Directorate Information Technology Directorate Educational Measurement and School Accountability Directorate

2. Presentation Outline • Background to up-dates and new facilities • Student Access • Student Pathways Survey and Plan • School Administration • School Report • Regional Administration

3. Background • In 2010 the Survey was completed by approximately 17,700 students, Years 9-12. • The need to up-date emerged: • Feedback from regions and schools • New School Leaving Age Legislation • Requests for access to more data at the school level • Re-design of the Feedback Report • The desire to provide an online career & transition planning template for students in Year 9-12

4. Prior to 2011 – SPS Design

5. 2011 – New design

6. Student access: Students will need: • Unique DEC User Name (do not share with others!) 2. Their personal Password 3. Know how / where to access their Student Portal

7. Access to the Student Portal

8. Student Portal

9. Student Portal – Home Page

10. Student access is on the Home Page of the DET Student Portal under Other Sites.

11. Student Pathways Survey / Plan Student Pathways Survey / Plan

18. Descriptions – Work types

19. Year 10 Student

20. Actions

21. Overall view of student records in the School Administration site

22. Identifying students

23. Students - Part-time work – Over 15 hours per week.

24. Potential School Leavers – Stage 6 -2011

25. School Report The school report: • Aggregates data provided by students • Q 2,3,4,6,11,15,16,17,19/20,23. • Factor areas identified earlier • Is on-line and interactive • Enables the selection of a variety of reports • Total year groups • Gender • ATSI • Disability • LBOTE • Custom group • Selection of reports will be by calendar year

26. School Report

27. Part-time Work

28. Hours of part-time work

29. Planning and Preparing

30. Planning and Preparing (Cont.)

31. Regional Administration

32. Regional administration

33. Student Voice The Survey: • supports individual students (Years 9-12) with career and transition planning • provides students and schools with evidence-based data • supports students’ capacity to self-manage their career planning • provides students with an opportunity for self-reflection • enables students to reflect on career confidence • provides prompts for their further consideration and action • is personalised and enables students to listen to their own thinking • can be utilised for a Personalised Learning Plan (PLP) or an Individual Education Plan (IEP) as well as Career and Transition Planning.

34. Usefulness • provides a medium for student voice • has the capacity to be utilised for student’s personalised career and transition planning • provides evidence-based data • enables informed school planning that can support students career development • supports Principals in Annual School Reporting (ASR) • Provides evidence of students intention to stay at school – Student engagement and attainment • Supports schools to meet outcomes identified in Our 15 -19 Year Olds Education and Training Strategy and the directions of Public Schools NSW • Aligns with the intention of the National Partnership for Youth Attainment and Transitions

35. Thank you ! Questions ?