BoS Annual Report - Cranbrook School

3. Performance in National and State-wide
tests and examinations
3.1 Literacy and numeracy assessments in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9
In 2012, students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 participated for the fifth time in the national Numeracy and Literacy Assessments, known
as NAPLAN. NAPLAN assesses individual student achievement in areas of literacy and numeracy. The overall literacy component
of the NAPLAN includes areas of reading, writing, spelling and language conventions. The writing component of the NAPLAN
is an assessment of a student’s writing ability, encompassing aspects of text structuring, grammar, spelling and punctuation.
In reporting student achievement in the NAPLAN, students are placed in skill bands, representing the performance of students
against nationwide criteria. The School is informed of the percentages of its students in each band and the corresponding state
(not national) percentages. This provides a useful comparison of School performance against the state’s student population. There
are separate bands for literacy (including writing) and numeracy. In Year 3 there are five bands while in Years 5, 7 and 9 there are
six bands.
In 2012, for the third time, schools were able to measure growth of students from one test period to the next ie over two years.
The School’s 2012 results are summarised in more detail in the following tables, as are the comparable state results (figures are all
percentages). Band 6 (Year 3), Band 8 (Year 5), Band 9 (Year 7) and Band 10 (Year 9) are the highest bands, Band 1, the lowest.
The assessments are conducted over several days, so that the number of students undertaking the assessments varies slightly for
each component due to absences on assessment days.
NAPLAN results at Year levels: Tables 1 to 4:
The tables below represent the percentage of Cranbrook students in each of the six reported bands for Years 3, 5, 7 and 9
compared with the percentages in the State. Cranbrook performs above the state, in terms of percentage of students at the higher
bands, at each year level, with the exception of Numeracy in Year 3.
Table 1: Percentage of Cranbrook Year 3 students in each band (1-6) v State
Band Reading Writing Spelling Grammar &
punctuation
1
2
3
4
5
6
Numeracy
Data,
measure,
space and
geometry
Number,
patterns and
algebra
Cranbrook 0 0 0 0 1.5 1.5 1.5
State 3.7 1.7 3.4 5.1 3.8 4.8 3.4
Cranbrook 3 1.5 4.5 3 4.5 3.0 4.5
State 10.1 5 7.5 7.4 9.3 9 12.9
Cranbrook 7.1 6.2 10.6 7.6 1.5 11.9 7.5
State 18.2 13.8 18.3 12.7 20.2 23.8 23.8
Cranbrook 10.4 18.5 24.2 10.6 25.4 16.4 17.9
State 20.6 22.3 25.4 19.0 27.8 22.1 20.5
Cranbrook 31.3 55.4 16.7 30.2 25.4 34.3 34.3
State 20.6 22.3 25.4 19.0 27.8 22.1 20.5
Cranbrook 49.3 18.5 43.9 48.5 41.8 32.8 34.3
State 26.4 15.9 30.1 33.7 17.7 12.6 13.9
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