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

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