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Joel Kenyon
@joel120193.substack.com

New Blog Post 📝 I hate QLA. Originally due to the time it sucked out of my PPA I now know that QLA documents do not provide the information we think they do. I go over the justification for why I ditched QLA and the reasons why you should get rid of it too. open.substack.com/pub/joel1201...

open.substack.comDeath to the Spreadsheet: Why I Finally Ditched QLAQuestion Level Analysis (QLA) is a staple in many schools. It is designed to turn exam results into a roadmap for student progress. But does it actually lead us where we need to go?
Dr Sarah Comfort
@sarahcomfort1.bsky.social

Our MAT is introducing QLA after assessments ‘to help to diagnose strengths and weaknesses in teaching between our schools. Found this blog very interesting. Do you know of any other reading I can do about QLA please?

Joel Kenyon
@joel120193.substack.com

This does seem to be a growing trend of more and more QLA but weirdly, I found the reading quite scarce on it. Which I find concerning. We have a bunch of people bringing in QLA but with nothing to actually base it off and especially no rationale.

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Joel Kenyon
@joel120193.substack.com

Even if you loo for academic studies, they use QLA and have quantifiers for it, however, there is no research on if the process as a whole actually works. Which is what prompted me to write this post in the first place. So in short, unfortunately nothing past a quick Google.

Hayley Simpkin
@pipkinzoo.bsky.social

I hate doing QLA with BUT two examples of where I've begrudgingly use it- I marked a whole cohort of biology mocks, QLA'd and used that to guide a review of the shared planning. And I've picked up a group with gaps, test QLA gave me a steer on which broader topics are worst. Rather than guessing.