RAISE online

What is RAISEonline?

The web-based system RAISEonline is an acronym for Reporting and Analysis for Improvement through School Self-Evaluation. It is an interactive tool produced by Ofsted and the Department for Children, Schools and Families. It provides schools with information to support their self-evaluation, and merges features from Ofsted's 'PANDA' and the DCSF's Pupil Achievement Tracker, known as 'PAT'. It allows schools to ‘drill down’ on-line through the information to individual pupil level, and save and update copies with the latest local information.

RAISEonline can be accessed online at www.raiseonline.org. It has been pre-populated with contextual and ‘validated' national curriculum test data for KS1, KS2 and KS4 for 2005-2009. KS3 data is now discontinued, however historical data is still available for 2005-07. Schools can download a complete version of their latest full report from the home page. RAISE online also contains the data management functions, target setting tool and question level analysis functionality.

Usernames and passwords were provided in a letter from Ofsted to schools. Please contact the Ofsted helpdesk, email: enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk, if you you need your username and password reset or if you have any queries or problems.

Training materials

In May 2009, the schools research and statistics team ran a course for schools covering using the question level analysis functionality in RAISEonline.

Materials from question level analysis in RAISEonline courses (May 2009)

Question level analysis in RAISEonline (ppt) 2.5mb

How to populate RAISEonline with a pupil level CTF (word)

We also ran courses for schools in May / June 2008 covering data management in RAISEonline and Accessing and interpreting data in RAISEonline.

Materials from data management in RAISEonline courses (May 2008)

Data Management in RAISEonline: primary schools (ppt) 2.5mb

Data management in RAISEonline: high schools (ppt) 2.5mb

National strategies question level analysis slides (ppt)

Ofsted and the DCSF have produced a useful introductory guide for the data management functionalities (pdf) aimed at administrators of RAISEonline.

Materials from accessing and interpreting data in RAISEonline courses (June 2008)

Accessing and interpreting data in RAISEonline: primary schools (ppt) 3.1mb

Accessing and interpreting data in RAISEonline: high schools (ppt) 1.9mb

Hillingdon’s research and statistics team also produced useful user guides on RAISEonline for primary and secondary schools in 2006/7. These are a bit out of date now but do give a useful interpretation of some of the reports in RAISEOnline:

Understanding RAISEonline: Primary schools (pdf)

Understanding RAISEonline: Secondary schools (pdf)