The following datafiles were used in creating the https://scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/cpre/ analysis:

ks4.parquet (6MB compressed, 200MB uncompressed)
https://scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/data/ks4.parquet

ks5.parquet (7MB compressed, 200MB uncompressed)
https://scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/data/ks5.parquet

These are apache arrow .parquet files, in this instance highly compressed .csv files. They cover all exam entries in English education institutions at key stage 4 and key stage 5 for the years 2012-2023.

To open in Windows take a look at the following: https://github.com/mukunku/ParquetViewer

Data used to create these files is from the English Department for Education's open datasets:

https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Downloads
https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk

All data is under the OGL 3.0 License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ To reference these files, please use the following:

Contains English Department for Education public sector data modified by Peter Kemp for the Nuffield funded SCARI computing project, 2024, under the Open Government Licence v3.0.


Bibtex entries

@misc{kemp2014scaridata,
  title = {English school exam entries dataset 2012-2023},
  author = {Peter Edward Joseph Kemp},
  year = {2024},
  note = {Contains English Department for Education public sector data modified by Peter Kemp under the Open Government Licence v3.0.},
  howpublished = {https://scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/}
}

@article{kemp2024future,
  title={The future of computing education: Considerations for policy, curriculum and practice},
  author={Peter Edward Joseph Kemp and Billy Wong and Jessica Hamer and Megan Copsey-Blake},
  publisher={{King's College London: United Kingdom}},
  year={2024},
  url={https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ecs/assets/kcl-scari-computing.pdf}
}