NATIONAL ASSESSMENT PROGRAM

1 2015 NATIONAL ASSESSMENT PROGRAM LITERACY AND NUMERACY (NAPLAN)REPORTING GUIDE YEAR 3, YEAR 5, YEAR 7 AND YEAR 9 2015 NAPLAN 2015 Reporting Guide iiPublished by the Victorian Curriculum and ASSESSMENT Authority Level 1, 2 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3000 First published 2015 Victorian Curriculum and ASSESSMENT Authority 2015 All rights reserved. Except under the conditions described in the Copyright Act 1968 and subsequent amendments, no part of this publication may be reproduced by any process without permission in writing from the : Victorian schools may print or photocopy parts of this publication for use by 978-1-922082-97-8 iiiNAPLAN 2015 Reporting GuideCONTACT DETAILSF reecall 1800 648 637 Fax (03) 9225 2334 Email website FOR NAPLAN 2016 TESTS10 May Literacy (Language Conventions, Writing) 11 May Literacy (Reading) 12 May NumeracyVCAA NAPLAN HelpdeskA Helpdesk service operates to assist principals and NAPLAN coordinators with queries about NAPLAN.

2 For queries and/or assistance contact the Victorian Curriculum and ASSESSMENT Authority (VCAA) on:NAPLAN 2015 Reporting Guide ivContentsVCAA NAPLAN Helpdesk iiiDATES FOR NAPLAN 2016 TESTS iiiIntroduction 1 Privacy Policy 1 NAPLAN Data Service 2 Reporting arrangements in 2015 2 Reports on a NATIONAL Scale 2 Important information regarding the reporting of the Writing domain 3 Scaled Scores 3 NATIONAL Minimum Standards 3 Trend Data and Growth 4 NAPLAN Student Report Format 4 Release of Data 4 Reference Guides for analysing NAPLAN data 4 Section 1: NAPLAN Data Service Access 5 Changing the password 6 Accessing a report 7 Selection criteria 8 Assign Students to Classes function 8 Previewing and printing reports 9 Extract function 10 Section 2: NAPLAN Data Service Reports 11 Summary of reports available 11 List of Reports and Functions 11 School Summary Report 13 Group Summary Report 14 ASSESSMENT Area Report 15 Writing Criteria Report 16 Item Analysis Report 17 Student Response Report 18 Student Achievement Level Report 20 Five Year Trend Report 22 School Comparison Report Matched School Group 23 Scaled Score summary table 25 School-Student Comparison Report 25 Relative Growth Report 27 Section 3: Interpretation of Results 29 Making Comparisons 29 School and Subgroup Comparisons 29 Individual Comparisons and Improvement 30 Section 4: NAPLAN Student Reports 31 Sample page 1 of the NAPLAN Student Report 32 NAPLAN Data Service Reports 33 Confidentiality of Results 33 Distribution of NAPLAN Student Reports 33 Replacement of NAPLAN Student Reports 33 Queries about NAPLAN Student Reports 33 Appendix 1.

3 NAPLAN 2015 Question Details 34 Year 3 Reading 34 Year 5 Reading 36 Year 7 Reading 38 Year 9 Reading 41 Year 3 Language Conventions 44 Year 5 Language Conventions 46 Year 7 Language Conventions 48 Year 9 Language Conventions 51 Year 3 Numeracy 54 Year 5 Numeracy 56 Year 7 Numeracy (Non-Calculator) 58 Year 7 Numeracy (Calculator) 60 Year 9 Numeracy (Non-Calculator) 62 Year 9 Numeracy (Calculator) 64 Appendix 2: NAPLAN 2015 Data Service Report Summary 66 Glossary 71 Data presentation 711 NAPLAN 2015 Reporting GuideIntroductionThe NATIONAL ASSESSMENT PROGRAM - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) conducted in May 2015, assessed Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 students across the nation in literacy and numeracy. All tests were constructed by the Australian Curriculum, ASSESSMENT and Reporting Authority ( acara ), in consultation with all states and territories.

4 For the literacy ASSESSMENT , Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 students completed three tests consisting of a Reading test, a Writing test and a Language Conventions test. For numeracy, Years 3 and 5 students completed one Numeracy test for which a calculator was not permitted. Years 7 and 9 students completed two Numeracy tests, the first of which permitted the use of a Victorian Curriculum ASSESSMENT Authority (VCAA) provides reports on individual student results and school data to all Victorian schools through the secure web-based NAPLAN Data PolicyThe Victorian Curriculum and ASSESSMENT Authority (VCAA) is committed to the protection of student information generated by NAPLAN. All personal information collected during NAPLAN is used in accordance with the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014. In order to conduct the NAPLAN tests, the VCAA collects names and achievement data of all students who undertake the Year 3, Year 5, Year 7 and Year 9 tests. The VCAA also collects information on student gender, language background, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) status, Victorian Student Number (VSN) and date of VCAA supports schools privacy compliance with NAPLAN testing requirements by encouraging principals to ensure that their parent communities are aware of the purposes for which NAPLAN data will be VCAA uses the student information provided by schools to pre-print individual student details on the front cover of the test books and to report to parents on their child s performance.

5 This data is also provided to the school to assist principals to analyse the effectiveness of their school programs and to identify individual student s strengths and across Australia are required to collect background characteristic information for all students participating in NAPLAN. The VCAA, on behalf of the Department of Education and Training (DET), is responsible for the management and supply of this information for NATIONAL reporting information required for each student is as follows: parental school education (mother and father as applicable) parental non-school education (mother and father as applicable) main language spoken at home (student) main language spoken at home (mother and father as applicable) parental occupation country of individual student will be identifiable in the information for release for NATIONAL reporting principal will ensure that all student details and results are confidential.

6 NAPLAN 2015 Reporting Guide 2 NAPLAN Data ServiceThe Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 NAPLAN data is available for Victorian schools to access online, via the secure NAPLAN Data Service. All student and school results from 2008 to 2015 can be accessed by schools on this website. Schools must use their unique login and security password to access their arrangements in 2015 Earlier release of NAPLAN data to schools Following the successful early release of some NAPLAN data in 2014, the VCAA has again been able to work with acara to implement even more timely reporting in is anticipated that all NAPLAN data service reports will be available for school use in the week commencing 17 August, to NAPLAN Writing Test images In 2015, for the first time, the VCAA will provide schools with access to images of their students NAPLAN Writing Tests. We believe this will assist schools with interpretation of their NAPLAN writing results and inform classroom teaching and learning images will be available via the NAPLAN Test Administration website.

7 Access will be limited to a period of 3 4 weeks. It is anticipated this period will be from mid-August to the end of Term 3. Details of how to access the website and download images will have been sent to school principals with school reporting note that schools will have access only to images of the Writing Tests of their own students, and that the images are available strictly for internal school use. Reports on a NATIONAL Scale The NATIONAL ASSESSMENT PROGRAM scale maps student outcomes onto a ten band continuum. Where appropriate, the NAPLAN Data Service displays results against these bands. NATIONAL , state and school distributions are presented as box-and-whisker graphs plotted against the bands relevant for the year level as follows: Year 3 - results will be reported in Band 1 to Band 6 Year 5 - results will be reported in Band 3 to Band 8 Year 7 - results will be reported in Band 4 to Band 9 Year 9 - results will be reported in Band 5 to Band 10.

8 3 NAPLAN 2015 Reporting GuideImportant information regarding the reporting of the Writing domainPrior to 2011, students were required to produce a narrative piece of writing for the NAPLAN Writing test, and outcomes for these tests in 2008, 2009 and 2010 are all reported on the same scale, and are directly comparable. When the genre was changed to persuasive writing in 2011, analysis by acara showed that students performed differently on tasks requiring these two different types of writing, and that it was not possible to report persuasive and narrative writing outcomes on the same 2015, students were again asked to produce a persuasive piece of writing, and results for this test are reported on the persuasive scale established in 2011. Comparisons between 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 writing outcomes may therefore be meaningfully made, but schools are advised not to make such direct comparisons back to narrative results from 2008, 2009 or 2010.

9 Scaled ScoresScaled scores provide an ability measure of student outcomes. These scores range from 0 to 1000, and form the numeric continuum from which the ten reporting bands are derived. The bands line up against the scaled scores as follows: Band 1 - scaled scores 270 Band 6 - scaled scores > 478 and 530 Band 2 - scaled scores > 270 and 322 Band 7 - scaled scores > 530 and 582 Band 3 - scaled scores > 322 and 374 Band 8 - scaled scores > 582 and 634 Band 4 - scaled scores > 374 and 426 Band 9 - scaled scores > 634 and 686 Band 5 - scaled scores > 426 and 478 Band 10 - scaled scores > 686 NATIONAL , state and school summary statistics are provided as scaled scores below the box-and-whisker graphs for the School Summary ( NATIONAL ) Report. The tabular form of the Student Achievement Level ( NATIONAL ) Report shows results for individual students as a scaled score for each ASSESSMENT area. Scaled scores can be directly compared across time within any given ASSESSMENT area.

10 However, comparison of scaled scores across different ASSESSMENT areas is not meaningful and is not recommended. NATIONAL Minimum Standards With the introduction of NAPLAN in 2008, single point NATIONAL benchmarks were replaced with a NATIONAL minimum standard, defined by a particular band at each year level as follows: For Year 3, the NATIONAL minimum standard is Band 2 For Year 5, the NATIONAL minimum standard is Band 4 For Year 7, the NATIONAL minimum standard is Band 5 For Year 9, the NATIONAL minimum standard is Band with results in these bands have typically demonstrated the basic elements of literacy and numeracy for their year level. Students with results in the lowest band for their year level have not achieved the NATIONAL Minimum Standard, and are likely to require focused intervention or specialised support to fully participate in schooling. Details of the general skills associated with the NATIONAL Minimum Standards are provided, for each domain, on the acara website at 2015 Reporting Guide 4 Trend Data and GrowthThe Five Year Trend Report displays a full five year data set, and provides schools with an opportunity to make comparisons between their NAPLAN results over the five years from 2011 further reports are available which help establish growth patterns.