2nd Test Standardisation
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 7:03 pm
Most LEAs or Grammar School offer alternative 2nd 11+ exam dates for those children that have a bone-fide reason, such as illness, for missing the 1st test date. I understand that this is a completely separate paper.
I wondered if anyone could explain to me how the Exam moderators standardise/normalise across the 2 tests and 2 sets of papers to produce a single consolidate set of standardised scores?
They can't just use the same pass mark as the tests may differ significantly in the degree of difficultly, also the ability profile of the 2 sets of candidates may be quite different?
Do they get use a control group of children from a different LEA for example to take boths tests so the results can be compared? Are there any LEA examiners out there that know what happens in practice?
My own son recently sat the KE Grammar School tests in Birmingham which was set by the University of Durham CEM. I know for the Camp Hill boys school there were about 1,200 applicants for 91 places for the Sept 2005 entry. So competition is very tough and there must be quite a concentration of children around the pass mark.
I wondered if anyone could explain to me how the Exam moderators standardise/normalise across the 2 tests and 2 sets of papers to produce a single consolidate set of standardised scores?
They can't just use the same pass mark as the tests may differ significantly in the degree of difficultly, also the ability profile of the 2 sets of candidates may be quite different?
Do they get use a control group of children from a different LEA for example to take boths tests so the results can be compared? Are there any LEA examiners out there that know what happens in practice?
My own son recently sat the KE Grammar School tests in Birmingham which was set by the University of Durham CEM. I know for the Camp Hill boys school there were about 1,200 applicants for 91 places for the Sept 2005 entry. So competition is very tough and there must be quite a concentration of children around the pass mark.