OARS Reports
Associated documents
PAT Band descriptors
Used to...
Identify what students can do based on the scale score (current band)
Locate appropriate resources by BAND in the PAT Teaching Resources Centre
Key scores
Scale score
Band score
Identify different levels of ability across the school, or within a class
Used to...
Identify particular questions that were easy and hard for the students who sat the test
Identify the strands where the group is relatively strong or weak
Compare students against the norm group data to see which students were above or below the norm medians
Key scores
Raw score
Scale score
Item difficulty score
Stanine
Percentile
Associated documents
PAT Maths norm data
PAT Reading norm data
Used to...
Identify particular questions that were difficult for the student
The best option for discussing a child's PAT results with their parents (in parent teacher interviews)
Key scores
item difficulty score
Raw score
Analyse the student's ability across the strands
Analyse the student's ability across different text types (reading only)
Scale score
Visualise the margin of error of the child's scale score ('confidence band')
Stanine
Percentile
Associated documents
PAT Maths norm data
PAT Reading norm data
Used to...
Track the progress of a single year level over time
Track the progress of individual students within that year level over time
Key scores
Scale score
Compare the achievement of the students in each year against the PAT norm data
PAT Teaching Resources Centre
Locate appropriate resources by STRAND in the PAT Teaching Resources Centre
Used to...
Compare the achievement of the students in certain year against the PAT norm data
Compare the bands the students in a certain year level fall into against the bands that the students in the PAT norm data fall into
Key scores
Scale score
Band score
Norm median scores
Associated documents
PAT Maths norm data
PAT Reading norm data
Identify the level students are working towards (ie, the next band up)
PAT Band descriptors