PASEC 2019 OUTCOME MEASURES

Assessment domain(s)
  • Early mathematics
  • Mathematics
  • Early reading and language
  • Reading comprehension
  • Teaching reading comprehension
  • Teaching mathematics
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Achievement and test scales
Scale Creation
  • An international reading performance scale and an international mathematics performance scale were constructed using item response theory, and more precisely the mixed coefficients multinomial logit model (MCMLM), which is a generalized form of the Rasch model.
  • For both scales, the international average is 500 points and the standard deviation is 100 points, with all countries being given equal weighting. 
  • For both Grade 2 and Grade 6, PASEC developed competency scales for each subject. 
  • The PASEC performance scales were divided into several levels, mainly according to the knowledge and abilities required to answer the questions, which were also placed on the scales.
    • Five levels in reading (Below Level 1, Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4)
    • Four levels in mathematics (Below Level 1, Level 1, Level 2, Level 3)

 

LIST OF ACHIVEMET SCALES

  • Language of instruction proficiency scale – Early primary
  • Mathematics proficiency scale – Early primary
  • Reading proficiency scale – Late primary
  • Mathematics proficiency scale – Late primary
  • Teachers’ proficiency scale for reading comprehension
  • Teachers’ proficiency scale for mathematics
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Questionnaire and background scales

SCALE CREATION

  • Several of the questions asked to pupils, teachers, and principals were synthesized into indices. 
  • Like the performance scales, these indices were constructed based on item response theory (the Rasch model).
  • To facilitate interpretation of the index, results were adjusted to an international scale for which the average is 50 and the standard deviation is 10.

 

LIST OF BACKGROUND SCALES

  • School infrastructure index
  • Classroom equipment index
  • Socio-economic index
  • Local facilities index
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