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Progress and Achievement Test (PAT)

Reading Comprehension 2016

Achievement Results with Student Performance being compared to National Norms

With

Indicative National Standard Results for Year 6, 7 and 8

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Equivalent End of Year Performances for Years 4,5,6,7 and 8

Waikanae School Reading Comprehension Progress and Achievement Test Analysis February 2016 Page 2

About this Assessment

• PAT Reading Comprehension Stanines enable a student’s achievement to be compared against National Norms. They also enable teachers and parents

to compare student performance across cohort groups.

• Stanines and their associated test scores have been scaled and ‘normed’ to fit the ‘Bell Curve of Normal Distribution’.

• This test became available in its current form to schools in 2008.

• This test assesses a student’s level of reading comprehension. This is the seventh time that this test has been used at Waikanae School and it provides excellent

insights into the next steps for learning and teaching.

• As the NZCER have supplied the Scaled Score match to National Standards we are able provide the Indicative National Standards grades of Well Below, Below, At,

and Above for Years 6 to 8. This has been treated as an end of year (EOY) summative assessment for 2015 due to the fact that students still have 10 months of

learning to undertake in their relevant Year Group.

• As a result of these NZCER Scaled Score Matches we are also able to supply Comparisons to Equivalent Year Group End of Year Performance. It is important to note

with this graphs that students still have 10 months of learning to get to the appropriate Year Level Performance

N.B. NZCER = New Zealand Council for Educational Research (The developers of this assessment tool)


Description of Ethnic Groupings

Category

Number of

Students in Test

Group

Percentage of Test

Group Description Notes

Asian 12 6% All students identified upon enrolment as

Asian

Maori 46 16% All students identified upon enrolment as

Maori

MELAA 4 1% All students identified upon enrolment as

Middle Eastern , Latin American or, American

New Zealand

European 198 71%

All students identified upon enrolment as New

Zealand European

Other 12 4% Any other category

Pacific Peoples 7 2%

This category includes all students identified

upon enrolment as being Samoan, Fijian, Cook

Island Maori or Other Pacific Peoples

5 of these students are English Language

Learners.

All 275 100% All students tested from Year 4 to Year 8


Achievement Summary

1. Overall performance across the school is above National Norms. We have 65% of our students at or above Stanine 5. (Norm =60%). This performance is

5% above the National Norm.

2. This year our overall performance trends up over the five year groups, beginning at 54% in Year 4 and finishing at 61% by year 8.

3. The Year 6 and Year 7 Cohorts are a real area of strength with 73% and 79% of students at or above Stanine 5 (Norm =60%).

4. In comparison to National Norms our ‘tail’ remains very small. The tail being the 17% students with Stanine Result 1, 2, or 3 (Norm= 23%). This

performance is 6% better than the National Norm.

5. In 2014 Maori Performance dropped below National Norms. This trend has plateaued in through 2015 and 2016. We have 57% of our Maori students

at or above Stanine 5 (Norm =60%). This performance is 2% below the National Norm for all ethnicities. Interestingly 22% of this group are in Stanine 3

This student group will feature in our School Targets for 2016 (see 2016 Charter). Hopefully their achievement will rise in 2015-16 as a result of this.

6. Pacific Peoples are well below National Norms with only 28% of students at or above Stanine 5 (Norm =60%) This performance is 32% below the

National Norm.

It is important to note that this group contains only 7 students or 3% of the test population. 5 of the students are English Language Learners who are

‘Well Below’ in reading. Staff and management are well aware of this issue and are taking all practical steps to lift the achievement of these students to

a level commensurate with others.

Interventions include:

• individualised tutoring for oral language and reading

• Use of Lexia programme

• Use of differentiated learning task and class groupings and programmes etc.

• ELLP used to guide assessment practices and next learning steps

• This student group will feature in our School Targets for 2016 (see 2016 Charter)

7. Indicative National Standards results show that 85% of students in Year 6, 7 and 8 are ‘At or Above the Standard’ when the results are interpreted as

summative assessment for 2015. See page 23.


8. Results over time remain consistent for the ‘All’. The down ward shift in results for Maori seen last year continues. There has been a drop in performance

for Pacific Peoples when compared to 2014 results. However the numbers in this cohort are so small that we must read too much into this improvement.

See page 12.

9. All cohorts have made pleasing progress from one year to the next. See Equivalent Year Group Graphs on pages 18-22.


Stanine 1 Stanine 2 Stanine 3 Stanine 4 Stanine 5 Stanine 6 Stanine 7 Stanine 8 Stanine 9

Norm 4% 7% 12% 17% 20% 17% 12% 7% 4%

Performance 2% 5% 10% 18% 15% 21% 17% 8% 4%

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rtPAT Reading Comprehension for All

February 2016 Stanine Comparisons to National Norms


Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 All

Norm 60% 60% 60% 60% 60% 60%

Performance 54% 54% 73% 79% 61% 65%

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rtPAT Reading Comprehension by Year Group

February 2016 Comparison to National Norms

Percentage of Students at or Above Stanine 5


Asian Maori MELAA NZ Euro Other Pacific Peoples All

Norm 60% 60% 60% 60% 60% 60% 60%

Performance 100% 57% 100% 66% 75% 28% 65%

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rtPAT Reading Comprehension by Ethnicity

February 2016 Comparison to National Norms




Norm 4% 7% 12% 17% 20% 17% 12% 7% 4%

Performance 2% 2% 22% 17% 11% 17% 15% 13% 0%

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rtPAT Reading Comprehension by Maori




Norm 4% 7% 12% 17% 20% 17% 12% 7% 4%

Performance 0% 29% 0% 43% 0% 14% 0% 0% 14%

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Norm 4% 7% 12% 17% 20% 17% 12% 7% 4%

Performance Girls 0% 2% 9% 14% 19% 19% 23% 8% 5%

Performance Boys 2% 3% 10% 18% 17% 20% 19% 7% 4%

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2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Norm 60% 60% 60% 60% 60%

All 67% 72% 70% 71% 65%

Maori 69% 73% 57% 58% 57%

Pacific Peoples 35% 40% 27% 43% 28%

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rtPAT Reading Comprehension Over Time

2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 Comparison to National Norms




Norm 4% 7% 12% 17% 20% 17% 12% 7% 4%

Performance 2% 4% 7% 27% 14% 21% 20% 2% 4%

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rtPAT Reading Comprehension Year 8




Norm 4% 7% 12% 17% 20% 17% 12% 7% 4%

Performance 5% 4% 2% 11% 14% 29% 18% 11% 7%

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Norm 4% 7% 12% 17% 20% 17% 12% 7% 4%

Performance 1% 3% 11% 11% 14% 28% 14% 13% 4%

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Norm 4% 7% 12% 17% 20% 17% 12% 7% 4%

Performance 0% 11% 17% 17% 17% 11% 20% 7% 0%

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Norm 4% 7% 12% 17% 20% 17% 12% 7% 4%

Performance 0% 6% 14% 26% 18% 10% 14% 6% 6%

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EYG 3 and Below Year 4 EYG 5 EYG 6 EYG 7 EYG 8 EYG 9 EYG 10 and above

2013 16% 16% 29% 22% 10% 4% 2% 0%

2014 7% 4% 24% 26% 24% 6% 7% 2%

2015 0% 2% 11% 13% 25% 21% 21% 8%

2016 0% 0% 5% 13% 25% 20% 32% 5%

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rtPAT Reading Comprehension Year 8 Cohort 2016

Comparisons to the Equivalent Year Group Performance for 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016



2013 31% 13% 37% 6% 8% 2% 4% 0%

2014 16% 12% 35% 20% 16% 0% 0% 2%

2015 0% 6% 24% 37% 16% 6% 10% 2%

2016 5% 4% 4% 13% 34% 18% 18% 5%

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Comparisons to the Equivalent Year Group Performance for 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016



2104 52% 9% 14% 11% 3% 8% 3% 0%

2015 20% 16% 25% 28% 8% 2% 2% 0%

2016 4% 11% 18% 35% 14% 7% 8% 1%

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2015 51% 14% 23% 9% 2% 0% 0% 0%

2016 35% 17% 20% 22% 7% 0% 0% 0%

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Comparisons to the Equivalent Year Group Performance for 2015 and 2016



2016 56% 12% 16% 8% 2% 2% 4% 0%

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Comparisons to the Equivalent Year Group Performance for 2016


Well Below Below At Above

Year 6 4% 11% 18% 66%

Year 7 9% 4% 13% 75%

Year 8 5% 13% 25% 57%

All 6% 9% 19% 66%

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rtPAT Reading Comprehension by Year

Indicative Performance against the National Standards as an

EOY Summative for 2015 for Year 6, 7, and 8 Students only


Well Below Below At Above

Boys 2% 8% 23% 67%

Girls 1% 14% 11% 73%

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rtPAT Reading Comprehension by GenderIndicative Performance against the National Standards as an



All Asian Maori MELAA NZ Euro Other Pacific Peoples

Well Below 6% 0% 8% 0% 5% 0% 40%

Below 9% 0% 23% 0% 7% 14% 0%

At 19% 22% 8% 0% 22% 0% 20%

Above 66% 78% 62% 100% 66% 86% 40%

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