The Individual Report maps how well a student has performed on the different questions within a test. Although the Individual Reports for all  PATs/STAR/S:TwE look quite different, they are all built on a set of common concepts. When viewing the individual report for PAT:Reading Comprehension, users view the graph displaying student reponses and statistics. 

Teachers are encouraged to begin using the Item and List reports to group students at the same scale level, and look for trends and patterns for next steps. Teachers do not have time to consider every single individual report, however, they are useful to enquire further into target students or those students you need a little more depth of knowledge for


The Individual Report  displays the questions against the PAT:Punctuation & Grammar scale (patpg). The questions are grouped according to the genre/text they are associated with. The questions are positioned according to their location on the PAT:Punctuation and Grammar scale, determined by the level of skill and knowledge required to answer them.  The Report Key explains student responses:

  • Black circle - answered correctly
  • White circle - answered incorrectly
  • Grey circle - omitted

The student's scale position is shown by the dotted line which intersects the scale and the stanine score distributions for three different year levels.The green highlighting around the dotted line is used to indicate the margin of error associated with the student’s score. If the test could be repeated, we would expect the student to score in the range indicated by the highlighting, about two thirds of the time. Students who achieve very highly or very poorly on a test will have a larger error associated with their score and is less reliable. Highly capable or struggling students should sit the test that matches their  ability level.

Typically, a student is more likely to answer correctly the questions listed below the line than above it. When a question is located well below the line there is a strong expectation that the question will be answered correctly. In contrast, it is very unlikely that a question located well above the line will be answered correctly. 



Question types
The reports also groups the questions to indicate the category they belong to:

  • Punctuation (P) 

About a third of the questions in each test focus on punctuation. Punctuation questions can be further categorised according to the type of punctuation the question focuses on; for example, full stops, capital letters, question marks, or apostrophes (as in the example below). For a fuller description of each question, see page 1 of the student reports.

  • Grammar Use (GU)                            

    These questions require students to identify and use conventional patterns and structures of standard English as used in Aotearoa New Zealand; for example, identifying the word that completes a sentence.                                               

  • Grammar Knowledge (GK)                            

    These questions require students to demonstrate explicit knowledge about word classes and their labels. For example, students may be asked to indicate the word in a sentence that is a verb. 

                                            
        


By CLICKING on the SHOW QUESTION button in the righthand menu, users can switch between List View & Text View.

  •  Show List View :  order for scale difficulty of questions, order numerically, group questions by text type
  • Show Strand View: questions organised in categories, and can be ordered for scale/concept difficulty, or numerically