Team Meeting - NZCER Assessment Information Reading/Video

You can find the NZCER document here

NZCER: New ways to use assessment information

Diagnostic and evaluative categories for assessment data. PAT (Progression Achievement Test), shows how student's progress in any given subject. Understanding intention provides relevant reasons for collecting data. PAT data is part of a range of ways data is collected to identify learning needs. Purposeful assessment: What is working well, what is not, and needs to change?
Diagnostic and development focused: Finding out about students strengths and learning needs.
Evaluative: To assess the overall effectiveness of programmes and interventions.
Understanding the scale is crucial to getting good diagnostics...

Measurement Scale: The difficulty range of questions in any test is important because it will allow students to accurately demonstrate their knowledge capabilities e.g. If its to easy it will have a 'ceiling' effect, and if it's too hard will have a 'flooring' effect.
Scale score matches to the NZC level, so teachers can accurately identify gaps and next steps.
Multiple choice questions are deliberately used to reveal students 'ways of approaching' a problem or task, therefore revealing misconceptions, allowing teachers to fill in 'the gaps'.

Allows you to track a student's progress over time and across year levels.The scale score is a standard that shows where students should be working. You would expect students to be working at a higher level at the end of the year.
Assessment should be used to inform future teaching.