Gatsby Benchmark Evaluation Tool

Gatsby Benchmark Evaluation Tool

Schools and colleges can use our free Gatsby Benchmark Evaluation Tool to quickly evaluate your careers programme. Progress Careers can offer expert guidance to help you create a quality careers provision.

A set of questions to determine if your school is reaching the Gatsby Benchmarks.

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Name(Required)

First Last

Your Email(Required)

School/College Name(Required)

Which year groups attend your school?(Required)

Below Year 6

Year 6

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

Year 11

Year 12

Year 13

Gatsby Benchmark 1 – Stable careers programme (part one)

Does your school have a careers programme that:

Is written down?(Required)

Yes

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Is approved by the board of governors?(Required)

Yes

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Has the explicit backing of senior leadership?(Required)

Yes

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Has resources/ funding allocated to it?(Required)

Yes

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Is regularly monitored?(Required)

Yes

Don't Know

Has both strategic and operational elements?(Required)

Yes

Don't Know

Does your school publish its careers programme on its website(Required)

Yes

Don't Know

Gatsby Benchmark 1 – Stable careers programme (part two)

Is the information on your website about the career programme aimed specifically at:

Teachers?(Required)

Yes

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Students?(Required)

Yes

Don't Know

Parents/ carers?(Required)

Yes

Don't Know

Employers?(Required)

Yes

Don't Know

Does your school evaluate the effectivness of its careers programme at least every three years?(Required)

Yes

Don't Know

Gatsby Benchmark 1 – Stable careers programme (part three)

Does the evaluation of your careers programme take into account feedback from:

Teachers?(Required)

Yes

Don't Know

Students?(Required)

Yes

Don't Know

Parents/ carers?(Required)

Yes

Don't Know

Employers?(Required)

Yes

Don't Know

Does your school have a lead person with strategic responsibility for overseeing your school's careers programme?(Required)

Yes

Don't Know

Benchmark 2 - Learning from career and labour market information

Approximately what proportion of students have accessed and used up-to-date information about career paths and the labour market by:

Ages 14+(Required)

None

A few (1-25%)

Some (26-50%)

Most (51-75%)

Overwhelming majority (76-99%)

All

Don't know

Does your school encourage parents and carers to access and use up-to-date information about the labour market, future study options an career paths to inform the support they give to their children?(Required)

Yes

Don't Know

Benchmark 3 - Addressing the Needs of Each Student (part one)

How strongly do you agree or disagree that your school's career programme address the following issues?

It actively seeks to raise the aspirations of all students(Required)

Rate on a scale of 1 (strongly disagree) - 5 (Strongly agree)

It challenges stereotypical thinking (in terms of gender etc)(Required)

Rate on a scale of 1 (strongly disagree) - 5 (Strongly agree)

Benchmark 3 - Addressing the Needs of Each Student (part two)

Does your school?

Keep systematic records on each pupil's experience of career and enterprise activity?(Required)

Yes

Don't Know

Enable pupils to have access to accurate records about their own career and enterprise experiences?(Required)

Yes

Don't Know

Collect and maintain accurate data for each pupil on thier destinations for 3 years after they leave your school?(Required)

Yes

Don't Know

Share accurate and timely data with the local authority on pupil transitions and destinations?(Required)

Yes

Don't Know

Work proactively with the local authority and careers advisers around the careers guidance and progression of vulnerable and special educational needs and disability (SEND) students?(Required)

Yes

Don't Know

Benchmark 4 - Linking curriculum learning to careers

By the time they leave school, approximately what proportion of students have experienced curriculum learning that highlights the relevance of their subjects to future career paths?

Maths Enter an approximate percentage(Required)

None

A few (1-25%)

Some (26-50%)

Most (51-75%)

Overwhelming majority (76-99%)

All

Don't know

English Enter an approximate percentage(Required)

None

A few (1-25%)

Some (26-50%)

Most (51-75%)

Overwhelming majority (76-99%)

All

Don't know

PSHE Enter an approximate percentage(Required)

None

A few (1-25%)

Some (26-50%)

Most (51-75%)

Overwhelming majority (76-99%)

All

Don't know

Science Enter an approximate percentage(Required)

None

A few (1-25%)

Some (26-50%)

Most (51-75%)

Overwhelming majority (76-99%)

All

Don't know

Benchmark 5 - Encounters with employers and employees

Please select the years during which 76-100% of students have at least one encounter with an employer or employee.

Please select the years during which 76-100% of students have at least one encounter with an employer or employee.(Required)

Below Year 6

Year 6

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

Year 11

Year 12

Year 13

Above Year 13

What proportion of your students have at least one encounter with an employer every year they are at school?(Required)

None

A few (1-25%)

Some (26-50%)

Most (51-75%)

Overwhelming majority (76-99%)

All

Don't know

On average, how many encounters with an employer will students have by the time they leave school?(Required)

How many businesses will you involve in careers activity in the current academic year?(Required)

Benchmark 6 - Experiences of workplaces

Approximately what proportion of students have had an experience of a workplace by the end of year 11?(Required)

None

A few (1-25%)

Some (26-50%)

Most (51-75%)

Overwhelming majority (76-99%)

All

Don't know

During Year 12 and 13 specifically, what proportion of students have had an experience of a workplace?(Required)

None

A few (1-25%)

Some (26-50%)

Most (51-75%)

Overwhelming majority (76-99%)

All

Don't know

Benchmark 7 - Encounters with further and higher education

By the time they leave school, approximately what proportion of students have had the following experiences?

Meaningful encounters with Sixth Form Colleges?(Required)

None

A few (1-25%)

Some (26-50%)

Most (51-75%)

Overwhelming majority (76-99%)

All

Don't know

Information about the full range of apprenticeships, including higher level apprenticeships?(Required)

None

A few (1-25%)

Some (26-50%)

Most (51-75%)

Overwhelming majority (76-99%)

All

Don't know

Meaningful encounters with Further Education Colleges?(Required)

None

A few (1-25%)

Some (26-50%)

Most (51-75%)

Overwhelming majority (76-99%)

All

Don't know

Meaningful encounters with Independent Training Providers?(Required)

None

A few (1-25%)

Some (26-50%)

Most (51-75%)

Overwhelming majority (76-99%)

All

Don't know

Meaningful encounters with universities(Required)

None

A few (1-25%)

Some (26-50%)

Most (51-75%)

Overwhelming majority (76-99%)

All

Don't know

At least two visits to a university?(Required)

None

A few (1-25%)

Some (26-50%)

Most (51-75%)

Overwhelming majority (76-99%)

All

Don't know

Benchmark 8 - Personal guidance

What proportion of students have had an interview with a qualified careers adviser by the end of Year 11?(Required)

None

A few (1-25%)

Some (26-50%)

Most (51-75%)

Overwhelming majority (76-99%)

All

Don't know

What proportion of students have had at least two interviews with a qualified careers adviser by the end of Year 13?(Required)

None

A few (1-25%)

Some (26-50%)

Most (51-75%)

Overwhelming majority (76-99%)

All

Don't know

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