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

ks4.parquet (6MB compressed, 200MB uncompressed)
ks5.parquet (7MB compressed, 200MB uncompressed)

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}
}