ATTENDANCE IN WEEK 10

Learning and teaching will continue in Week 10 and it is expected that students attend the last week of the term. Assessment often happens in this week.

YEAR 7-10 PROGRESSIVE ACHIEVEMENT TEST (PAT)

Commencing in Week 1 Term 4, Year 7, 8, 9 & 10 students will undertake PAT Adaptive assessments in their Mathematics and English classes. The two tests they will be doing are PAT- R (Reading) and PAT-M (Maths). The tests are online.

PAT Adaptive assessments create an individualised test experience for an even more precise picture of student achievement – and a more equitable way to assess.

In conventional assessments, students answer the same questions. But in adaptive assessments, students’ responses determine the content, resulting in personalised test pathways. The result is a highly detailed picture of achievement, enabling teachers to more precisely diagnose student needs and target teaching where it is needed most. 

PAT Maths Adaptive 

• Measures mathematical ability across three strands:
  o Number and algebra
  o Measurement and geometry
  o Statistics and Probability
• Addresses the proficiencies of fluency, understanding, problem solving and reasoning
• Automatic assignment of students’ entry levels
• Personalised test pathways determined by student responses
• Multiple choice and some interactive questions, administered in 40 minutes
• Mapped to the Australian Curriculum

PAT Reading Adaptive

• Assesses reading comprehension, covering four strands:
  o Retrieve
  o Interpret implied
  o Interpret explicit
  o Reflect
• Provides five text types and 16 strand processes as organising components of reports
• Automatic assignment of students’ entry levels
• Personalised test pathways determined by student responses
• Multiple choice and complex multiple-choice questions, administered in 45 minutes
• Mapped to the Australian Curriculum

MISSED ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES FOR STUDENTS IN YEAR 7-10

To ensure that assessment remains fair and equitable for all students, the following applies to Year 7-10 students.

• If a student misses an examination, parents are required to contact the class teacher to inform them of the absence. An alternative date and time for the student to undertake the examination will be determined by the class teacher in consultation with the Curriculum Leader: in most cases this is the next lesson following the student’s return to school.
• When a student does not submit a response to an assessment instrument on or before 3 pm on the due date, a result will be awarded using evidence from the preparation of the response that is available on or before the due date.

ABSENCE FROM SCHOOL.

For planned absences from school (matters of the student’s or parent/carer’s own choosing), a “Notification of Absence” form is required to be completed by parents/carers and returned to the College. Parents are required to complete the ‘assessment missed’ section on this form in additionto the reason for absence. Assessment dates can be found on Compass and Year level assessmentcalendars on the Website. The form can be found on the College website and at Student Reception.

Helen Rainnie