Reporting to NSW Schools on the

School CertificateSchool Certificateand the

Higher School CertificateHigher School Certificate Presenter: Carol Taylor, Director, Assessment and Examinations,

NSW Board of Studies

Schools Online

• Schools send and receive information to the NSW Office of the Board of Studies (OBOS) via Schools Online

• Schools Online is a secure website developed by OBOS, which is accessed without charge by the Principal or delegate through a username and password

Schools Online Site Map

Display a Students’ Results

School vs State Grading Pattern Comparison

School Group Statistics Report

Higher School Certificate Components Reports

• In some HSC courses, students are required to present for more than one examination

• These are referred to as Components

For Visual Arts:

For English as a Second Lang.:

• For such courses we provide an additional report to schools via Schools Online

• This is known as the: HSC Components Report

• It shows students’ relative performance across the components.

HSC Components Reports (cont.)

Features of the HSC report• It sorts students from the school group in

descending order by Exam Mark

• For each student it shows the percentage of total marks gained from each component

• It also provides, for each component, the mean percentage for the school group and the nominal weighting

• It includes a page of explanatory notes

HSC Components Report

School Certificate Components Reports

• For the School Certificate tests we also provide Components Reports

• However, the components used are particular skills/topics covered in the test

• Each year, all test questions are linked with a particular component

MARS High School (0042)

English-literacy (5000) 24 January 2006

Contribution ( % ) from:

Student Test Read./View. Read./View. Writing Extended

Number Mark Mult.Choice Short Answer Task Writing Task

19876541 92 48.2 17.3 11.1 23.5

19870555 86 54.7 14.7 10.7 20.0

19873324 81 52.2 15.9 0 8.7 23.2

19877784 74 56.7 13.3 0 8.3 21.7

19877713 74 60.0 15.0 0 6.7 18.3

19870509 72 54.4 17.5 0 8.8 19.3

19870984 71 58.2 12.7 0 9.1 20.0

19869999 71 61.8 9.1 0 9.1 20.0

19873482 69 71.7 15.1 0 5.7 0 7.6

19878888 63 63.0 0 6.5 10.9 19.6

19874666 63 63.0 0 6.5 0 8.7 21.7

School Group Mean: 58.5 13.1 0 8.9 19.5

State Mean: 56.8 13.7 10.2 19.3

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SC Components Report

Results Analysis Package

• Schools can also pay an annual fee to access further data about the performance of their students and the state

• These data are presented in the Results Analysis Package, a program developed by the NSW Board of Studies

• This program includes several statistical tools to analyse school/state performance:

Mark Comparison

Multiple Choice Analysis by Band

Band Summary

Course Report Analysis

Z-Score Analysis

One can also analyse school/state performance on particular multiple

choice questions

Multiple Choice Analysis by Band

Multiple Choice Analysis