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Year 12
A Summary of OP Calculations, QCS, QCCA, QCE, OP & QTAC and all other
acronyms!
End of Year 12
Senior Statement Q’ld Certificate of Education (QCE) Tertiary Entrance Statement VET accreditation School Reference (from Emmaus)
Senior Statement
Issued by the Queensland Studies Authority (“Authority”).
All students who complete Year 12 receive this certificate.
Senior Statement
Authority Subjects and Authority Registered Subjects
-Number of semesters studied -Level of Achievement (VHA, HA,..)
Voc Ed modules QCS result (A-E) (Recorded subjects (AMEB, etc))
Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE)
Certificate that is awarded to students who achieve 20 credit points – Sound achievement or above in at least three subjects studied through year 11 and 12
Meet literacy and numeracy requirements
Tertiary Entrance Statement
Overall Position
1 – 25--------------------
Field Positions (FP) 1 – 10 Up to 5 FPs
-------------------- Field A Field B Field C Field D Field E
Field Positions
A : Extended written expression B : Short written communication C : Basic numeracy D : Solving complex problems E : Substantial practical
performance (physical, creative, expressive)
What is an OP?
OP stands for overall position A number taken from a rank order of
eligible Yr 12 students in Queensland (based on their achievement in Authority subjects)
Tertiary institutions use OP in selecting students
The most favourable OP is 1 and the least favourable is 25
To get an OP
Study at least 20 semester units of Authority subjects (usually 5 subjects for 4 semesters)
At least 3 subjects for all 4 semesters
Do the QCS test
QCS Test
2 days (Tue, 4 Sept, Wed 5 Sept) All Queensland OP eligible students 4 papers:
Writing Task (WT) Multi Choice Questions 1 (MCQ1) Short Response Items (SRI) Multi Choice Questions II (MCQII)
7 hours of testing over 2 days
Format of QCS Test
Tuesday
am WT (2 hrs)
pm MCQ I (90 mins)
Wednesday
am SRI (2 hrs)
pm MCQ II (90 mins)
Why have the QCS Test?
The purpose of the QCS Test is:
(1) To compare subject group with subject group within the school
(2) To compare school group with school group across state
What QCS Test measures
Measure of the skills acquired in 12 years of schooling regardless of subjects studied
Common Curriculum Elements (CCE)
Why preparation?
Test wise! Familiarity with phrases: Key terms,
CCE, stem & cue, star value. How to plan your time Methods of approach
Comfortable!
How is OP for an individual calculated?Individual contribution
AND
Group contribution
Pdf file: calopfps.pdf
Individual contributionSubject Achievement Indicators (SAI)
What is an SAI: shows one student’s achievement in relation to the achievement of other students in that subject in that school
SAI’s range from 400 (highest performing student) to 200 (lowest performing student)
This range of numbers is used to compare the achievement of students in the subject group
Subject Achievement Indicators (SAI)
Each student will have an SAI for each Authority subject
The school’s ranking of students for each subject -
(1) in order (2) with correct relative gapsSAI’s are published and students are
encouraged to check these
Group contributionThe purpose of the QCS Test is to:
(1) To compare subject group with subject group within the school
(2) To compare school group with school group across state
Scaled SAIs
Purpose: Within a school, to compare results in one subject with results in other subjects
Need standard baseline of comparison What’s used- QCS subject group results:
Mean and Measure of spread
Scaled SAIs In the within-school stage of scaling,
the average and spread of the subject-group SAI’s are re-set (scaled) to the group’s average and spread of performance on the QCS test
The relative order and gaps are retained – only the scale has changed
Different processes used for small subject groups
Overall Achievement IndicatorOAI
To produce a single rank order of students with the school, an Overall Achievement Indicator (OAI) is calculated – regardless of what subjects studies
This is the average result across each student’s ‘best five subjects’
(best – best scaled SAI’s; five subjects – 20 semester units of credit)
Example calculation for Sandra (p.1)
Subject Level of Achievement
SAI Scaled SAI
English HA 342 206Mod Hist VHA 385 248Japanese LA 221 145Economics SA 314 183Graphics SA 263 172Drama LA 240 131
Example calculation for Sandra (p.2)
Scaled SAI 206 English 248 Mod Hist 145 Japanese 183 Economics 172 Graphics 131 Drama
Calculate OAI Mod Hist 248 * 4 Eng 206 * 4 Eco 183 * 4 Graph 172 * 4 Jap 145 * 4
-------------------- Total 3816
OAI = 3816/20 = 190.8
First stage of scaling – produced a single rank order with each school given by each student’s OAI
Second stage of scaling – allows these rank orders to be compared across all schools
The average and spread of OAI’s for each school are reset (scaled) to the average and spread of QCS test score for all students in that school
Sandra’s School OAIs
190.8
mean
Sandra’s scaled OAI
Statewide Scaled OAIs
Top scaled OAI in Sandra’s school
Bottom scaled OAI in Sandra’s school
Example calculation for Sandra (p.3)
Scaled OAI’s provide a single rank order for the whole state.
These scaled OAI’s compare each student with all other students in the state regardless of their combination of subjects and regardless of the school attended.
OP Slice Up
Approximate distribution of students across OP bands
Band 1 - about 2% of students Bands 2 to 6 - about 19% of students Bands 7 to 21 - about 73% of students Bands 22 to 24 - about 5% of students Band 25 - about 1% of students
End