Qatar Comprehensive Educational Assessment (QCEA) 2007:

Summary of Results

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Agenda1. Overview of the QCEA program

2. Better understanding the QCEA 2007 assessment results

3. QCEA 2007 independent school assessment results, by grade1. Summary of results2. Arabic: overall, gender, and independent school cohort3. English: overall, gender, and independent school cohort4. Mathematics: overall, gender, and independent school cohort 5. Science: overall, gender, and independent school cohort

4. QCEA 2005, 2006, and 2007 comparisons of independent school results, across time1. Key assumptions 2. Summary of results3. Arabic: All students and independent school cohort4. English: All students and independent school cohort5. Mathematics: All students and independent school cohort6. Science: All students and independent school cohort

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Overview of the QCEA program

QCEA program• Measures student performance with respect to the Qatar

Curriculum Standards• Assesses Arabic, English, Mathematics, and Science learning

in Grades 4 to11• Administered to approximately 18,000 students, attending

Qatar independent schools, in the Spring of 2007

About Reporting the QCEA 2007 Assessment• Individual student reports distributed to students, parents,

and schools• Class reports in each subject-matter for teachers, containing

data about their current students

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Better understanding the QCEA 2007 results

Performance levels and scale scores:• Each student receives a scale score in each content area

and in some sub-areas

• Scale scores are also converted into performance levels thus indicating whether a student has met the standards

• Five performance levels are considered, with three of those embedded within the “Below Standards” description for the sake of better discrimination among the poorer performers:– “Meets Standards” (level 5)– “Approaches Standards” (level 4)– “Below Standards” (levels 1–3)

QCEA 2007 independent school results by grade

Summary of results

Arabic: overall, gender, and independent school cohort

English: overall, gender, and independent school cohort

Mathematics: overall, gender, and independent school cohort

Science: overall, gender, and independent school cohort

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Summary of Results: QCEA 2007Performance level results across subject-matter: overall and gender

Subject-matter• Although scale score comparisons among subject- matters are not valid,

performance level proportions can be contrasted. In this respect students tended to perform better on the Arabic and English tests than on the mathematics and science instruments– A larger proportion of students scored in the “Meets Standards”

performance level in Arabic and English, as compared to mathematics and science.

– A smaller proportion of students scored in the “Below Standards: Level 1” in Arabic and English, as compared to mathematics and science.

Gender• Girls tended to perform better than boys in all subjects.• Boys and girls performed mostly similar to each other in mathematics,

Grade 4.

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Summary of Results: QCEA 2007Performance level results across subject-matter: independent school cohort

Independent school cohort• Across all grades and subject-matter, Cohort 1 tended to perform

better than Cohort 2; and both Cohorts 1 and Cohort 2 tended to perform better than Cohort 3.– Exceptions include:

• Mathematics, grade 4, where Cohort 3 performed slightly better than Cohort 2.

• Science, Grades 4 and 6, where all three cohorts performed mostly similar to each other in the “Meets Standards” and “Approaches Standards” performance levels

• Science, Grade 5, where Cohort 3 performed better than Cohorts 1 and 2.

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Arabic: overall Performance level results, QCEA 2007

By grade

Percentage of students in:

• Meets Standards ranges from 2% (Grade 9) to 7% (Grade 11)

• Approaches Standards ranges from 19% (Grade 8) to 30% (Grade 6)

• Below Standards ranges from 65% (Grade 5) to 79% (Grade 8)

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Arabic: genderPerformance level results, QCEA 2007

BoysPercentage of students in: • Meets Standards ranges

from 1% (Grade 9) to 4% (Grade 5)• Approaches Standards ranges from

13% (Grade 8) to 22% (Grade 5)• Below Standards ranges from 75%

(Grade 5) to 85% (Grade 8)

GirlsPercentage of students in: • Meets Standards ranges from 2%

(Grade 9) to 13% (Grade 11)• Approaches Standards ranges from

27% (Grade 8) to 39% (Grade 6) • Below Standards ranges from 50%

(Grade 11) to 69% (Grade 8)

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Arabic: cohortPerformance level results, QCEA 2007

Cohort 1Percentage of students in:• Meets Standards ranges from 2% (Grade 9)

to 13% (Grade 11)• Approaches Standards ranges from 24%

(Grade 8) to 43% (Grade 10)

Cohort 2Percentage of students in • Meets Standards ranges from 1% (Grades 4

and 9) to 6% (Grade 11)• Approaches Standards ranges from 18%

(Grade 8) to 26% (Grade 6)

Cohort 3Percentage of students in • Meets Standards ranges from 1% (Grades 6

and 9) to 5% (Grade 7)• Approaches Standards ranges from 11%

(Grade 11) to 19% (Grade 7)

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English: overallPerformance level results, QCEA 2007

By grade

Percentage of students in:

• Meets Standards ranges from 3% (Grade 8) to 12% (Grade 4)

• Approaches Standards ranges from 14% (Grade 8) to 27% (Grade 5)

• Below Standards ranges from 63% (Grade 4) to 84% (Grade 8)

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BoysPercentage of students in: • Meets Standards ranges from 2%

(Grade 8) to 8% (Grade 4)• Approaches Standards ranges

from 9% (Grade 8) to 20% (Grade 4)• Below Standards ranges from 73%

(Grade 4) to 90% (Grade 8)

GirlsPercentage of students in:• Meets Standards ranges from 5%

(Grades 8) to 20% (Grade 11)• Approaches Standards ranges from

17% (Grades 9) to 35% (Grade 5) • Below Standards ranges from 54%

(Grade 5) to 74% (Grade 9)

English: gender Performance level results, QCEA 2007

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English: cohortPerformance level results, QCEA 2007

Cohort 1Percentage of students in • Meets Standards ranges from 5% (Grade

8) to 26% (Grade 11)• Approaches Standards ranges from 24%

(Grades 8 and 9) to 43% (Grade 5)

Cohort 2Percentage of students in • Meets Standards ranges from 1% (Grade

8) to 7% (Grades 10 and 11)• Approaches Standards ranges from 10%

(Grade 8) to 19% (Grades 5 and 6)

Cohort 3Percentage of students in • Meets Standards ranges from less than

1% (Grades 4 – 6) to 5% (Grade 7)

• Approaches Standards ranges from 4% (Grade 10) to 15% (Grade 7)

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Mathematics: overallPerformance level results, QCEA 2007

By gradePercentage of students in: • Meets Standards ranges from

less than 1% (Grades 4 to 9 and 11) to 5% (Grade 10)

• Approaches Standards ranges from 7% (Grade 4) to 38% (Grade 10)

• Below Standards ranges from 57% (Grade 10) to 93% (Grade 4)

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Mathematics: gender Performance level results, QCEA 2007

BoysPercentage of students in: • Meets Standards ranges from less

than 1% (Grades 4 to 9, and 11) to barely less than 3% (Grade 10)

• Approaches Standards ranges from 6% (Grade 4) to 29% (Grade 10)

• Below Standards ranges from 67% (Grade 10) to 94% (Grade 4)

GirlsPercentage of students in: • Meets Standards ranges from less

than 1% (Grades 4 to 9) to 8% (Grade 10)

• Approaches Standards ranges from 8% (Grade 4) to 52% (Grade 10)

• Below Standards ranges from 40% (Grade 10) to 93% (Grade 4)

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Mathematics: cohortPerformance level results, QCEA 2007

Cohort 1Percentage of students in • Meets Standards ranges from less than 1%

(Grades 4, 5 and 7 to 9) to 14% (Grade 10)• Approaches Standards ranges from 11%

(Grade 4) to 55% (Grade 11)

Cohort 2Percentage of students in • Meets Standards ranges from less than 1%

(Grades 4 to 9 and 11) to 4% (Grade 10)• Approaches Standards ranges from 3%

(Grade 4) to 37% (Grade 10)

Cohort 3Percentage of students in • Meets Standards is less than 1% in all

Grades• Approaches Standards ranges from 3%

(Grade 5) to 25% (Grade 10)

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Science: overallPerformance level results, QCEA 2007

By grade

Percentage of students in: • Meets Standards is less than 1% in

all grades

• Approaches Standards ranges from 1% (Grade 11) to 27% (Grade 9)

• Below Standards ranges from 73%(Grade 9) to 99% (Grades 10 and 11)

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BoysPercentage of students in: • Meets Standards is less than 1% in all

grades • Approaches Standards ranges from

less than 1% (Grade 11) to 26% (Grade 9)

• Below Standards ranges from 74% (Grade 9) to more than 99% (Grade 11)

Female Performance Percentage of students in: • Meets Standards is less than 1% in all

grades• Approaches Standards ranges

from 1% (Grade 11) to 30% (Grade 9) • Below Standards ranges from 71%

(Grades 9) to 99% (Grade 11)

Science: genderPerformance level results, QCEA 2007

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Science: cohortPerformance level results, QCEA 2007

Cohort 1Percentage of students in: • Meets Standards is 0% in every grade, except

grades 6 and 8 (one student in Grade 6, and one in Grade 8, achieved “Meets Standards”)

• Approaches Standards ranges from 1% (Grade 11) to 46% (Grade 9)

Cohort 2Percentage of students in: • Meets Standards is 0% in every grade, except

Grades 7 and 8 (three students in Grade 7 and one student in Grade 8, achieved “Meets Standards”)

• Approaches Standards ranges from 1% (Grade 11) to 23% (Grade 5)

Cohort 3Percentage of students in: • Meets Standards is 0% in every grade, except

Grades 5 and 7 (one student in Grade 5, and one in Grade 7, achieved “Meets Standards”)

• Approaches Standards ranges from less than 1% (Grades 10 and 11) to 28% (Grade 5)