Year 12

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Year 12

• A Summary of OP Calculations, QCS, QCCA, QCE, OP
  QTAC and all other acronyms!

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End of Year 12

• Senior Statement
• Qld Certificate of Education (QCE)
• Tertiary Entrance Statement
• VET accreditation
• School Reference (from Emmaus)

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Senior Statement

• Issued by the Queensland Studies Authority
  (Authority).
• All students who complete Year 12 receive this
  certificate.

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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))

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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

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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

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Field Positions

• A Extended written expression
• B Short written communication
• C Basic numeracy
• D Solving complex problems
• E Substantial practical performance (physical,
  creative, expressive)

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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

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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

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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

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Format of QCS Test

• Tuesday
• am WT (2 hrs)
• pm MCQ I (90 mins)

• Wednesday
• am SRI (2 hrs)
• pm MCQ II (90 mins)

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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

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What QCS Test measures

• Measure of the skills acquired in 12 years of
  schooling regardless of subjects studied
• Common Curriculum Elements (CCE)

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Why preparation?

• Test wise!
• Familiarity with phrases Key terms, CCE, stem
  cue, star value.
• How to plan your time
• Methods of approach
• Comfortable!

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How is OP for an individual calculated?

• Individual contribution
• AND
• Group contribution
• Pdf file calopfps.pdf

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Individual contributionSubject Achievement
Indicators (SAI)

• What is an SAI shows one students achievement
  in relation to the achievement of other students
  in that subject in that school
• SAIs 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

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Subject Achievement Indicators (SAI)

• Each student will have an SAI for each Authority
  subject
• The schools ranking of students for each subject
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• (1) in order
• (2) with correct relative gaps
• SAIs are published and students are encouraged
  to check these

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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

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Scaled SAIs

• Purpose Within a school, to compare results in
  one subject with results in other subjects
• Need standard baseline of comparison Whats used-
  QCS subject group results Mean and Measure
  of spread

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Scaled SAIs

• In the within-school stage of scaling, the
  average and spread of the subject-group SAIs are
  re-set (scaled) to the groups 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

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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 students
  best five subjects
• (best best scaled SAIs five subjects 20
  semester units of credit)

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Example calculation for Sandra (p.1)
Subject Level of Achievement SAI Scaled SAI
English HA 342 206
Mod Hist VHA 385 248
Japanese LA 221 145
Economics SA 314 183
Graphics SA 263 172
Drama LA 240 131
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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

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• First stage of scaling produced a single rank
  order with each school given by each students
  OAI
• Second stage of scaling allows these rank
  orders to be compared across all schools
• The average and spread of OAIs for each school
  are reset (scaled) to the average and spread of
  QCS test score for all students in that school

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Example calculation for Sandra (p.3)
Statewide Scaled OAIs
Sandras School OAIs
Top scaled OAI in Sandras school
190.8 mean
Sandras scaled OAI
Bottom scaled OAI in Sandras school
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• Scaled OAIs provide a single rank order for the
  whole state.
• These scaled OAIs compare each student with all
  other students in the state regardless of their
  combination of subjects and regardless of the
  school attended.

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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

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