AQE Exam Results

Bonno_2

Forthly you can grade what you like, I'm not answerable to you or anyone else for that matter.[/QUOTE]

And furthermore you don't have to justify yourself to anyone!

It's a simple ask :-

1) our childs raw mark
2) age standardised score calculation statistics
3) grade equivalent

BangorMum

This is the reply I got from the AQE yesterday! Looking like the future of our kids is down to ONE expert!?
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An age-standardisation process is carried out by a sophisticated computer programme, specifically developed by a university expect for AQE. This programme was applied to each of the three assessments, before the best two were taken.

I hope that this is of some help.

Yours sincerely
AQE

Lisburn_Mum_2

I really think everyone is getting so hung up on the age issue, my daughters birthday is 28 June she got a score of 97, a girl in her class is 6 July so apart from a few days is a year older she got 114.

I dont feel she was given any favours just what she deserved. Just try to accept it for what it is you are just driving yourself crazy.

BangorMum

With another child coming along it is more a case of questionning the ins and outs of a system I just put one through!

Lisburn_Mum_2

Poor You!! I am so glad I am not in your shoes god only knows what hoops you will have to jump through this year! Good Luck!!

AKA3

BangorMum wrote: »

This is the reply I got from the AQE yesterday! Looking like the future of our kids is down to ONE expert!?
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An age-standardisation process is carried out by a sophisticated computer programme, specifically developed by a university expert for AQE. This programme was applied to each of the three assessments, before the best two were taken.

I hope that this is of some help.

Yours sincerely
AQE

This is an inadequate response because the repeated question about where the norm reference has come from hasn't been answered.
I would deduce from this response that the test hasn't been piloted.

This thread isn't a comment on the ability of younger children. This standardisation process has been applied to all pupils and has enabled conversion of raw scores to age adjusted scores and subsequent rank order.
Within narrow bands, 97-100; 113-116; 117-120 and so on, should contain approximately the same number of children from each birth month.

If AQE are content with how they have age adjusted then they should be in a position to:
1. answer question re: norm reference
2. release raw scores

Bonno_2

Thank you AKA3 - you're absolutely right - that reply doesn't fill one with confidence.

What is the big secret????

and where do we go from here??

Stanjnr

They haven't changed their responses much since the reply I got back at the beginning of February

The formula for converting from raw scores to the age standardised one is a large, complicated one - which I don't understand and wouldn't be able to send to you. But it is highly sophisticated and very accurate. It was applied to each of the assessments separately, before the best two scores were taken.

Wonder what they did after the raw scores were standardised and they took the 2 best scores, we got one score so what did they do with the 2 best scores, add together, add together and divide by 2, something else - we are really none the wiser and it still doesn't fill me with any confidence.

Bonno_2

I thought that all 3 test marks were entered into the computer, all standardised and the best 2 scores added together.

Looking at the scores awarded - they are nearly on line with the raw marks available (128), so the standardised age related process marks would seem minimal. Based on this, a child's score of 100 (the average) would equate to at least 28 incorrect answers over the 2 best papers?? I would be happy with this but it is all contridicted by the 145 score. The relationship between the higest raw mark attainable (128) and the highest score (145) needs clarified.

AKA3

Bonno it isn't possible to make any comparison between the raw score & adjusted score.