Achievement Rates Business Definition

DEFINITION

1. The Achievement Rate is a measure of the ability to pass a qualification having already completed the study for it.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

2. Achievement Rates are published by the LSC for the FE sector alongside success and retention rate data.

3. The concept of an achievement rate is not used by the LSC in the Employer Responsive or Community Learning (Previously known as Adult Safeguarded Learning) sectors.

4. There are two definitions of achievement rate of which ‘Achievement Rate – all completers’ is the primary measure and ‘Achievement Rate – known outcomes’ is a historical measure that has been superseded.

5. Where the term ‘achievement rate’ is used on its own it is the ‘Achievement Rate – all completers’ that is being used.

6. ‘Achievement Rate – all completers’ is the number of aims that have been fully achieved divided by the number of aims that have been completed.

7. ‘Achievement Rate – known outcomes’ is the number of aims that have been fully achieved divided by the number of aims that have been completed and have a known outcome.

8. A fully achieved aim is coded on the ILR as Outcome = 1.A completed aim is coded on the ILR as CompStatus = 2.An aim that is completed and has a known outcome is coded on the ILR as CompStatus = 2 and Outcome = 1, 2 or 3

LINKS

9. See the ILR Specification fields Outcome and CompStatus for definitions of the learning outcome and completion status.

Last date modified: December 2012