This is part of the general shift to outcome measures in the public sector. There is a greater emphasis on the use of student achievement data both to understand the balance between school, student and contextual data and to look at the school processes that appear to support improved achievements (Campbell and Levin, 2009). These make data on student learning outcomes available, providing a picture of the extent to which student learning objectives are being achieved, and they grant the opportunity to compare student learning outcomes across individual schools, regions of the country and over time.