Real-time data analysis has become an indispensable tool for educational institutions seeking to improve outcomes. Observatory collects and analyses data in real time, allowing you to gain valuable insights into school performance, identify areas for improvement, and adjust strategies accordingly.
If your organisation does not contain Perspective Premium schools or all schools in your organisation have data sharing turned off, the analysis page will be unavailable.
Your access limits the analysis you can export. For example, if your administrators have only given you access to three schools, you will only see data for these three schools, provided those schools have data sharing on and the premium version of Perspective.
Observatory administrators can maintain the schools assigned to a user via the Users page. See the Assigning Schools to a User section of the Administration help guide for more information.
Analysis
To access the Analysis for your schools, click the Analysis option on your main Observatory toolbar.
If you want to view the old analysis export screens, click the Looking for the Exports page? link at the top of this screen. For more information on the exports, click here.
Within the Observatory Analysis section, you are presented with six different panels to choose from.
Each analysis panel and its functionality are explained below.
KPIs
Clicking the Analysis option takes you to the main Analysis dashboard, where you can view all your Analysis options. Under Observatory Analysis, click on KPIs. This analysis dashboard is explained in a separate guide, which you can access by clicking here.
Visits & Actions
Clicking the Visits option takes you to the main Visits dashboard, where you can view real-time data for your visits. This dashboard is explained in a separate guide, which you can access by clicking here.
Clicking the Actions option does the same, but for your Actions data. Click here to access the dedicated help guide for that page.
Categories & Grades
The Categories data is powered by the categories assigned to schools within the system. For more information on category administration, click here. For details on assigning categories to schools, click here.
This section shows the spread of categories assigned to schools as a percentage. You can change this to counts via the Count option on the right.
The Grades data is powered by the grades assigned to schools within the system. For more information on grade administration, click here. For details on assigning grades to schools, click here.
For both Categories and Grades, hover over a bar to see a percentage and count of schools with that category or grade. There are two options on the pop-up.
See Schools will quickly take you to the Schools page of Observatory and automatically filter for the schools that have the specific category or grade you selected, allowing you to interact with them quickly.
Create Group immediately takes you to the group creation page and automatically selects schools with that category or grade assigned. Saving you from creating groups from scratch!
This simple but powerful functionality lets you quickly categorise and group schools based on your predefined criteria.
The chart at the bottom of the Grades tab also shows you the trend of grades, so you can easily track this data over time!
MIS
By combining a Wonde subscription with a Premium Observatory account, our users gain access to our MIS analysis section. All that key analysis can be found by selecting the relevant option within the MIS Panel on our Analysis page.
This area is quite large, therefore, it has its own help article, which you can access by clicking here.
Performance Management
Use this panel to select one of three options directly related to staff performance and monitoring. Our analysis includes Development Feedback, Professional Standards and the overall status of all staff Performance Reviews.
That is another large area of the analysis; therefore, it has its own help article, which you can access by clicking here.
Self Evaluation
The Self Evaluation Analysis is split into two areas and will allow you to gain a clear view and understanding of SEF grades for all your schools, and also drill into their SEF text entries.
The SEF Grades button will take you to an overview of the SEF grades your schools have assigned to each area of the Self Evaluation Framework(s).
You can narrow your results down to specific schools, school types, or inspection frameworks (Ofsted, CSI, SIAMS etc) by adjusting the filters at the top of the analysis page. You can also filter by specific grade using the 'Filter by section = grade' filter.
Similarly, the SEF Text option will return all the text answers that your schools have added against any of their Self Evaluation Frameworks.
Please note: For this analysis to feed into Observatory, schools must have data sharing switched on.
For more information on SEF Analysis, click here.