Data Collection, Analysis and Reporting
Student progress 2006
Student progress (compared to previous years) for students participating in the National Accelerated Literacy Program during 2006.
Participation
- At the end of the 2006 school year, there were 50 schools participating in the National Accelerated Literacy Program (NALP). Of these, there were 36 schools with recorded assessments in Accelerated Literacy Information Analysis System (ALIAS).
- There were 4,165 students participating in the Accelerated Literacy program at the end of Week 8 of Term 4 2006. There were 5,167 students who participated in the Accelerated Literacy program at some time during 2006.
Participating students are students that are receiving literacy instruction using the Accelerated Literacy methodology.
Student Progress
Care must be taken when interpreting student progress results as these measures were calculated using a small subset of students.
Individual Level (IL) assessment sequences
- In 2006, the average progress rate for students with an IL assessment sequence on the IL scale was 1.74 reading year levels per year. There were 914 students included in this calculation.
- Approximately 38% (558 of 1472) of the IL assessment sequences were unable to be included in calculations as both assessments were below the IL scale. That is, the students were assessed to be unsuccessful using the easiest text for both assessments in the sequence.
- In 2006, there were 458 students whose IL assessment sequences indicated that they progressed at 2 or more reading year levels per year.
Torch assessment sequences
- In 2006, the average progress rate for students with a Torch assessment sequence was 1.22 reading year levels per year. There were 415 students included in this calculation.
- For Torch, there were 175 students who progressed at 2 or more reading year levels per year during 2006.
Note: 1 reading year level per year is considered to be normal.
Individual Level (IL) assesses reading from texts which have not been taught in class and which are sometimes known as ‘unseen’, ‘unfamiliar’ or ‘unsupported’ texts. These texts have been assigned a ‘benchmark’ level matching them with a school year level.
Torch assessment is another reading test that is administered to students with a successful IL at Year 4 or above. It is an assessment of how well the student comprehends an unseen text.
Assessment sequence is a series of student assessments of the same type (ie IRL or Torch) in more than one term.
Comparing 2005 and 2006
Average IL student progress rate – 2005 and 2006
|
2005 |
2006 |
IL student progress |
|
|
Number of students – Term 4 |
2,534 |
4,165 |
Students with assessment sequences (on scale) |
526 |
914 |
Progress rate |
1.67 |
1.74 |
Torch student progress |
|
|
Number of students – Term 4 |
2,534 |
4,165 |
Students with assessment sequences (on scale) |
212 |
415 |
Progress rate |
1.34 |
1.22 |
Care must be taken when interpreting the information is this table as some 2005 assessment information was updated during 2006. It will vary slightly from the information reported in the 2005 Student Progress Report.
Indigenous students
- During 2006, 75.4% (or 3,898 of 5,167) of the students participating in the Accelerated Literacy program were Indigenous.
- There were 556 students with IL pre-scale assessment sequences during 2006 (ie these students were unsuccessful at Transition level for both assessments in the sequence). The majority (513 or 92.2%) of these students were Indigenous.
- Of the 441 students with a Torch sequence during 2006, Indigenous students were under-represented with 174 (or 39.5%).
Summary – student progress groups
- In 2006, there were 458 students whose IRL assessment sequences indicated that they progressed at 2 or more reading year levels per year. For Torch, there were 175 students who progressed at 2 or more reading year levels per year.
- 71 of the 184 students whose IL assessment sequences indicated No Progress were assessed as reading at Year 8.
- During 2006, there were 2,936 students with one or more IL assessments recorded. Of these, there were 1,338 students (or 45.6%) who were assessed as Unsuccessful at Transition at some stage during the year.