Performance Measures (CVA)

Six Sports Leaders UK qualifications have now been awarded CVA points which can be used to contribute to a student's attainment level.  We have listed the qualifications and relevant points in the table below:

As you can see, the Level 2 Award in Sports Leadership receives 23 CVA points on completion of the qualification.  In comparison a B grade at GCSE receives 46 CVA points.

What is CVA?

Contextual Value Added (CVA) scoring was conceived to compare student's results with those of all students nationally with similar attainment when they left primary school, but makes allowance for the very different circumstances in which schools operate, and over which they have no control.

CVA scoring factors into the progress measure, nine overlapping elements or "coefficients":

• Gender
• Special Educational Needs
• Ethnicity
• Eligibility for Free School Meals
• First Language
• Mobility
• Age
• In Care
• IDACI (a postcode-based deprivation measure)

What CVA does is predict what a given child's attainment should be based on the attainment of other children with similar prior attainment and similar backgrounds.

The idea is in effect to create a level playing field so that how they actually performed - better or worse than the others - can be attributed to the school's influence.

(Some content has been adapted from an article by Gary Eason, Education Editor, BBC News website)