Athena has introduced a new Executive Summary, designed to sit alongside its existing Athena Reports. It is a shorter, easy-to-share version of the report, ideal for boards of management and other key stakeholders.
Athena Reports already provides schools with detailed analysis of their State Examination results, helping them understand how students are performing compared with national figures and other cohorts, such as DEIS schools, gaelcholáistí, all-boys or all-girls schools. It also highlights areas of strength and identifies opportunities for improvement.
That level of detail is incredibly useful for school leaders and subject departments. But when you need to bring the headline findings to a meeting or share the bigger picture with stakeholders, a lengthy report isn’t always the easiest format.
The new Executive Summary is a straightforward way to communicate key findings and provide a useful overview for boards of management and other stakeholders. It brings the most important insights together into a concise, accessible report.
A useful addition for school leadership
It is also a natural companion to the full Athena Report.
Rather than replacing the detailed analysis, it gives schools another way to use the information, whether that means sharing the headline results at a board meeting, discussing them with stakeholders or simply having a quick-reference overview to hand.
Here is the particularly good news for schools. For schools signing up for an Athena Report this year, the new Executive Summary is included at no additional cost.
That means schools can get the benefit of the full, detailed analysis alongside a shorter version specifically designed for sharing and discussion. It is a small addition that could make a big difference when it comes to turning results data into useful conversations.
Making results more useful
At the end of the day, exam results are more than a set of numbers.
They can help schools understand what is working well, where there are emerging trends and what might be worth considering as they look towards the next academic year.
Athena’s Executive Summary has been developed to make those insights easier to communicate, because good analysis is most valuable when people can actually use it.
And when it comes to school reports, sometimes the smartest addition is the one that helps everyone get to the point.
Athena Reports are available to schools now, with the new Executive Summary included at no additional cost for schools signing up this year. Click here to sign-up or view samples of all Athena Reports.
