TESTS AND TASKS - Rising Stars

YEAR 2/RELIABILITY AND PREDICTIONSStandard score 70 80 85 90 100 110 115 120 130Percentiles 2% 9% 16% 26% 50% 74% 84% 91% 98%RS Reading Tests 1and 2 score (outof 30 marks)RS Reading Tests 3and 4 score (outof 30 marks)RS Reading Tests 5and 6 score (outof 30 marks)3 10 16 20 24 26 27 28 2914 16 18 19 21 23 24 25 272 6 9 12 16 19 20 22 24Reading Tests 1 and 2 combinedThis pair of tests has a very strong correlation of pupils' levels with their test score givingPearson's r = 0.76. Correlation of pupils' levels with their age in months is fairly weak, however, givingPearson's r= 0.25. Overall this is a fairly easy and high-scoring pair of tests.Reading Tests 3 and 4 combinedThis pair of tests has a strong correlation of pupils' levels with their test score givingPearson's r= 0.63. Correlation of pupils' levels with their age in months is negative, givingPearson's r= -0.20. This pair of tests has a number of easy marks, but is strongly discriminating at theharder end.Reading Tests 5 and 6 combinedThis pair of tests has quite good correlation of pupils' levels with their test score givingPearson's r= 0.59. Correlation of pupils' levels with their age in months is weak, givingPearson's r= 0.18. This is quite a demanding pair of reading tests.The graphs below show the equating relationship for pairs of reading tests in each term betweenoverall marks and sub-levels. The closer pupils’ performance on the Rising Stars tests are to the KS1performance, the nearer the Pearson correlation r is to 1.QCAlevel4.003.002.001.00QCA level equated with RS test mark0.000.00 10.00 20.00 30.00RS test markReading Tests 1 and 2QCAlevel4.003.002.001.000.00–1.00QCA level equated with RS test mark0.00 10.00 20.00 30.00RS test markReading Tests 3 and 4QCAlevel4.003.002.001.00QCA level equated with RS test mark0.000.00 10.00 20.00 30.00RS test markReading Tests 5 and 6