Science Literacy 2006 school release materials - NAP

Students at this level demonstrate considerably more skill and understanding thanthose performing at Levels 3.1 and below.Year 6 students who exceed the proficient standard (those who perform at Level 3.3and above) demonstrate exemplary performance.Student performance and the Year 6 standardOne of the main objectives of the National Assessment Program – Science Literacyis to monitor trends in scientific literacy performance over time. One convenientand informative way of doing so is to reference the results to Proficiency Levels.Table 6.1 and Table 6.2 enable teachers to determine whether their students havedemonstrated proficiency in science by reaching Level 3.2 or better on the scientificliteracy scale.The tables can be used to convert students’ raw scores on the Science LiteracySchool Release materials to corresponding scale scores on the National AssessmentProgram – Science Literacy. In the latter, the students’ raw scores on the scientificliteracy scale were transformed into a scale with a mean of 400 and a standarddeviation of 100.This transformation was applied to assist in the interpretation of the raw scoresand the assignment of Proficiency Levels. Therefore the following tables can beused to determine the Proficiency Level of a student by matching his or her rawscore with the scaled score and corresponding Proficiency Level.If your students have attempted only the objective assessment, Table 6.1 providesthe information needed to convert their scores to the national scale.If your students have attempted both the objective assessment and the practicaltask, Table 6.2 provides the information needed to convert their scores to thenational scale.41