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Progress and Achievement Test (PAT)

Reading Comprehension 2014

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 2014

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 sixth 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 Ministry of Education 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 2012 due to the fact that students still have

10 months of learning to undertake in their relevant Year Group.

• As a result of these Ministry 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


Description of Ethnic Groupings

Category

Number of

Students in Test

Group

Percentage of Test

Group Description Notes

Asian 15 5% All students identified upon enrolment as

Asian

Maori 30 10.5% All students identified upon enrolment as

Maori

MELAA 4 1.5% All students identified upon enrolment as

Middle Eastern , Latin American or, American

New Zealand

European 190 66%

All students identified upon enrolment as New

Zealand European

Other 30 10.5% Any other category

Pacific Peoples 11 4%

This category includes all students identified

upon enrolment as being Samoan, Fijian, Cook

Island Maori or Other Pacific Peoples

6 of these students are English Language

Learners.

All 285 100% All students tested from Year 4 to Year 8


Achievement Summary

1. Overall performance across the school is above National Norms. We have 70% of our students at or above Stanine 5. (Norm =60%). This performance is

10% above the National Norm.

2. This year our overall performance shows some inconsistency over the five year groups, beginning at 53% in Year 4 and finishing at 77% by year 8.

3. The Year 4 Cohort is an area of concern. This student group will feature in our School Targets for 2014 (see 2014 Charter).

4. In comparison to National Norms our ‘tail’ remains very small. The tail being the 12% students with Stanine Result 1, 2, or 3 (Norm= 23%). This

performance is 11% better than the National Norm.

5. This year Maori Performance has dropped below National Norms. This is an unusual result as in previous years Maori Achievement matched or

exceeded other ethnic cohorts within the school. We have 57% of our Maori students at or above Stanine 5 (Norm =60%). This performance is 3% below

the National Norm for all ethnicities. Interestingly 33% of this group are in Stanine 4 and half of this group are XXX in Year X. This student group will

feature in our School Targets for 2014 (see 2014 Charter). Hopefully their achievement will rise in 2014-15 as a result of this.

6. Pacific Peoples are well below National Norms with only 27% of students at or above Stanine 5 (Norm =60%) This performance is 33% below the

National Norm.

It is important to note that this group contains only 11 students or 4% of the test population. 6 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 2014 (see 2014 Charter)

7. Indicative National Standards results show that 88% of students in Year 6, 7 and 8 are ‘At or Above the Standard’ when the results are interpreted as

summative assessment for 2013. See page 23.


8. Results over time remain consistent for the ‘All’. There has been a down ward shift of16% for Maori and 13% for Pacific Peoples respectively when

compared to 2013 results. 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 1% 2% 9% 17% 17% 20% 18% 8% 7%

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PAT Reading Comprehension for AllFebruary 2014 Stanine Comparisons to National Norms



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

Performance 0% 0% 10% 33% 7% 17% 13% 10% 10%

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rtPAT Reading Comprehension by Maori

February 2014 Stanine Comparisons to National Norms



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

Performance 27% 9% 27% 9% 9% 9% 9% 0% 0%

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Asian Maori MELAA NZ Euro Other Pacific Peoples All

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

Performance 87% 57% 100% 71% 80% 27% 70%

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rtPAT Reading Comprehension by Ethnicity

February 2014 Comparison to National Norms

Percentage of Students at or Above Stanine 5



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

Performance Girls 1% 2% 4% 18% 18% 18% 22% 9% 10%

Performance Boys 2% 3% 13% 17% 16% 21% 15% 8% 5%

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2011 2012 2013 2014

Norm 60% 60% 60% 60%

All 67% 67% 72% 70%

Maori 66% 69% 73% 57%

Pacific Peoples 38% 35% 40% 27%

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rtPAT Reading Comprehension Over Time

2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014

Comparison to National Norms

Percentage of Students at or Above Stanine 5



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

Performance 2% 2% 22% 17% 16% 11% 13% 8% 11%

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rtPAT Reading Comprehension Year 4




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

Performance 0% 2% 6% 14% 18% 27% 25% 6% 2%

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

Performance 2% 6% 4% 19% 13% 22% 20% 9% 6%

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

Performance 4% 2% 4% 24% 15% 22% 7% 9% 15%

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

Performance 0% 2% 8% 13% 23% 18% 23% 10% 3%

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

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

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rtPAT Reading Comprehension Year 4 Cohort 2014

Comparisons to the Equivalent Year Group Performance for the end of 2014



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

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

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Comparisons to the Equivalent Year Group Performance for the end of 2013 and 2014



2012 46% 17% 22% 4% 4% 4% 4% 0%

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

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

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Comparisons to the Equivalent Year Group Performance for the end of 2012, 2013 and 2014



2012 32% 12% 14% 26% 12% 0% 4% 0%

2013 12% 10% 21% 29% 16% 7% 3% 2%

2014 0% 5% 7% 20% 33% 9% 11% 15%

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2012 3% 9% 20% 31% 15% 9% 8% 5%

2013 0% 3% 10% 15% 33% 10% 26% 3%

2014 0% 0% 2% 13% 15% 25% 33% 13%

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Well Below Below At Above

Year 6 7% 4% 24% 65%

Year 7 5% 7% 20% 67%

Year 8 2% 13% 15% 70%

All 5% 8% 19% 68%

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rtPAT Reading Comprehension by Year

Indicative Performance against the National Standards as an

EOY Summative for 2013 for Year 6, 7, and 8 Students only


Well Below Below At Above

Boys 8% 13% 17% 62%

Girls 4% 9% 23% 64%

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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 5% 0% 0% 0% 3% 5% 50%

Below 8% 0% 13% 0% 7% 5% 38%

At 19% 10% 28% 0% 20% 15% 0%

Above 68% 90% 46% 100% 70% 75% 13%

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