Annual Report 2010 - Radford College

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adford collegeIt is interesting to note that half of the Year 5 cohort entered the College at thebeginning of the year. They have only four months of tuition at Radford before theirNAPLAN tests. Our Year 5 results in 2010 were slightly lower than previous years, butstill compare very favourably with both national and ACT means. There is some evidenceto suggest that the longer a student is with us, the better their performance. Thisobservation generally holds true in Year 7 as well as Year 5.High School NAPLAN ResultsWe commend the performance of Year 7 and Year 9 who attained very strong scores. InYear 7, 72% were in the highest band in reading, 41% in writing, 47% in spelling, 42%in Grammar and punctuation, and 59% in numeracy. In Year 9, 63% were in the highestperformance band in reading, 27% in writing, 33% in spelling and 48% in grammar andpunctuation. It is pleasing to observe that 54% of Year 9 students achieved in the highestperformance band in numeracy.School GrowthThe NAPLAN data now includes a score for ‘school growth’. This is based on a notionalprojection for student progress over time. We are doing an analysis of this data atpresent. It is interesting to note (as the UK schools discovered when they plotted ‘ValueAdd’ measures in their data) that high performing schools find it relatively harder todemonstrate ‘Value Add’ because the students already are achieving at a level higher thanthe mean scores of neighbouring schools.12 ANNUAL REPORT 2010
Annual Report 2010Preliminary analysis of the 2010 NAPLAN scores also suggests that attention needs to begiven to the Writing domain of the tests. This is true for Year 3, Year 5 and Year 9. It iswise to treat scores of this nature with caution. They are the results of tests conductedmonths ago and that are subject to flaws. To give you an example of what I mean, Headof Junior School, Mr Paul Southwell told of his investigations about one student whosescore was a little lower than expected. He discovered that the student had incorrectlynumbered the responses. I am sure there are stories like this all over the country.However, it is very useful data to collect and we will continue to work on it.ATAR Results for 2010The College congratulates the Class of 2010 on achieving outstanding results. This yearattained a median ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) score of 92, which was thehighest in the College’s history.UAI/ATAR COMPARISON TABLE 2001–2010UAI/ATR BandNSW/ACT 2001UAI2002UAI2003UAI2004UAI2005UAI2006UAI2007UAI2008UAI2009ATAR2010ATAR> 99 Top 1% 3% 5% 3% 9% 6% 8% 11% 8% 10% 4%> 95 Top 5% 13% 20% 20% 30% 31% 33% 33% 25% 25% 32%> 90 Top 10% 29% 34% 37% 50% 46% 52% 53% 43% 44% 57%Median 79.05 82.55 83.23 89.95 88.9 90.45 91.85 87.7 87.3 92.0ANNUAL REPORT 201013
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