This report answers one question: how is the teaching going? It does not ask you to enter anything new. It reads the marks your staff already put into award lists and turns them into a picture of each teacher — subject by subject, class by class, term by term.
Where it is
Examination Reports → Teacher Performance. It is also the last card on the Examination Report Builder.
It is a controlled screen: nobody holds it until you grant it, including your own superadmin. Go to Admin → Users & Privileges and tick Exam :: Teacher Performance Report for the people who should have it. Please think about that list before you tick it — the report names individual teachers, scores them, puts them in order and shows the weakest children in each class by name.
Read the blue line at the top first, every time
It says something like "92% of results in this period can be traced to a teacher". That is the honest limit of the report, and it matters more than any number below it.
The teacher of a result comes from the award list it was marked on. When somebody creates an award list and does not choose a teacher for a subject, every mark entered on it belongs to nobody — so it cannot appear anywhere on this report. If that line says 20%, the report is not telling you that your teachers are few or weak. It is telling you that four out of five award lists have no name on them.
The Fix the missing teachers button on that line lists exactly those award lists and lets you fill them in, already pre-filled from Assign Classes wherever you have set it up. Fixing them is worth doing once: it repairs the history as well as the future, because the report works out the teacher each time you open it.
The pass mark — a setting you own
Until now EDUBase had no idea what counted as a pass. Grades were bands of percentage with a letter and a remark, and nothing said where pass became fail. So passed, failed and pass % are worked out against a pass mark you set, using the button at the top of the page. It starts at 40%, and if one of your own grading policies already labels a band "Pass" the dialog offers you that number instead.
Changing it changes past reports too. Nothing is stored on the result: pass and fail are worked out each time a report is opened. That is deliberate — correct a mistake once and every report is right — but it does mean last term's pass rate moves when you move this number.
You can also set a different pass mark for individual classes, which is what most schools need when a board class passes at 33% and the junior school passes at 40%.
What "appeared" means, and why absences are separate
Appeared = present. When a child is marked absent, the system stores the paper as zero. If we counted those zeros in the average, a teacher whose class had flu that week would look like a worse teacher. So absences and leave are counted in their own columns, all averages are over the children who actually sat the paper, and how many turned up is scored separately.
The teacher score, in plain terms
Ranking teachers by plain class average mostly ranks subjects. The teacher with the kinder subject wins every term, whatever anybody did. So the score is built from five parts, and you can see all five for any teacher by clicking their name:
- Average percentage (25) — the mark the students actually got.
- Pass rate (25) — how many cleared your pass mark.
- Value added (25) — how they compare with other teachers of the same subject in the same class over the same period. Level with everyone scores half marks; being ahead scores more. If nobody else teaches that subject there is nothing to compare against, so this part scores level and the row says so.
- The teacher's own attendance (15) — see the next section
- Exam turnout (10) — how many of their students sat the papers.
You can also order the table by plain average, by pass rate, by the comparison alone, or by improvement — the ordering is a dropdown, so nobody has to take the score on trust.
"Not enough data"
A teacher with fewer than 15 marked results in the period is shown in full but is left out of the ordering. With a handful of papers the average is decided by which children turned up, not by teaching, and ranking on it would be unfair in both directions.
Ranking is switched off until you switch it on
The Ranking toggle at the top adds the position column. It is off by default on purpose: a numbered league table of your staff is a decision for the school, not something a report should decide for you.
Improvement is measured against the whole school
"Most improved" is not simply "went up the most". If every average in the school rose six points this term, that was an easier paper, not a better staffroom. So each teacher's movement has the school's own movement subtracted from it. A teacher who rose six points in that term shows zero; one who rose nine shows +3.
Where to focus — look down the column before you look at the person
The focus grid shows each subject-and-class against that subject's own school average. If a subject is weak in every class, that is usually the curriculum, the timetable or the paper — not the people teaching it. The number of teachers behind each row is shown for exactly this reason. Please read this panel before drawing conclusions about anybody.
The teacher's own attendance, and what it is doing
Attendance is 15 of the 100 points, and each teacher's page shows exactly what it is worth to them — for example "attending 97% (203 of 209 working days) is worth 14.6 of 15 points; their score is 0.9 higher than it would be if attendance were not scored at all."
If your school does not record staff attendance, nobody is penalised. That part is simply not scored and its 15 points are shared across the other four, so the total is still out of 100. The row says not recorded rather than showing a zero — a zero would read as "this teacher never turned up", which would be a statement about your record-keeping and not about them. The same applies to a teacher with fewer than 10 recorded days.
Days the school was closed are excluded from the calculation rather than counted as absence, and "Late" counts as attended.
The teacher's page also shows, month by month, their attendance beside their students' average — as two separate lines, never added together. Where at least four months have both, it tells you whether the months they attended more were the months their students did better.
Please read that last one as an observation, not a cause. A teacher may be absent for a bereavement in the same term their class sits a harder paper. The report says so on the panel itself. It is a question worth raising in a conversation — never a conclusion to act on by itself.
Exports
Excel downloads the whole teacher table with the period and the pass mark written into the top of the file, so a spreadsheet that has been emailed around still says what it was measuring. Print produces the report with your campus branding.
Things worth knowing
- Only subjects marked out of a total are included. Checkbox and direct-grade subjects have no percentage, so averaging them in would drag every teacher down.
- Average grade is read through the grading policy of the class the teacher marks most, because grading policies belong to classes. The policy used is on the tooltip.
- Filtering to one teacher changes what you see, never who they are compared against.
- The period is limited to about two years at a time. Longer than that and the report becomes slow enough to look broken.