Test Scoring and Analysis

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Interpretation of results received from TSA

Educational sales consultant in your area:

Julia Inglis
03 9277 5407
julia.inglis@acer.edu.au
VIC, SA and TAS

Terri Cornish
02 8338 6810
terri.cornish@acer.edu.au
NSW, ACT, NT

Maxine O'Shannassy
08 9235 4803
oshannassym@acer.edu.au
WA

Karen Elvish
07 3238 9005
karen.elvish@acer.edu.au
QLD

Costing and processing of reports
Peilin Soo
03 9277 5536
peilin.soo@acer.edu.au

Data analysis

You have data collected from assessments - what do you do with it now?

ACER can help you.

Here are some questions which may help you when choosing the type of analysis:
•   Do you require support in building skills and capacity in analysing and interpreting data?
•   What was the purpose of the assessment?
•   Do you require information on student performance to inform teaching practice and improve learning outcomes?
•   What type of analysis are you interested in (i.e. group, longitudinal, individual)?

Overview

The analysis service is an ongoing service providing analysis, reporting and consulting services for schools and school systems. It can provide teachers and schools with best practice tools and processes for collecting student outcome data systematically, and also provides teachers and schools with best practice tools and processes for monitoring student achievement.

Types of analysis and reports

Short term analysis
This analysis is based on one assessment, breaking results into strand, gender, item for group or individual. Examples of these types of reports are:
•    Group Diagnostic report
•   Rank Diagnostic report
•   Summary report
•   Percentage Responses report
•   Individual report

Growth analysis - Longitudinal

Group
A "growth" report tracks cohort growth over 2 plus years of sitting the same assessment (a scaled test to allow for this type of measurement).
•    Gender
•    Class types
•    New intakes

Individual
Individual growth of students over time.

Year level analysis

A "year level" report analyses year level data (of different cohorts) over 2 plus years to identify patterns within year levels over time.

Case study analysis

Low performing students
Low performing students (students whose scores are below the 10^th percentile scores) in the matched cohort. The aim of the analysis is to observe whether there is any performance growth of these low performing students in consecutive sittings.

High performing students
High performing students (students whose scores are above the 90^th percentile scores) in the matched cohort. The aim of the analysis is to observe whether there is any performance growth (or decline) of these high performing students in consecutive sittings.