Grading Guide: Oxford Digital for Mathematics and Statistics for Aotearoa New Zealand (Years 0-8)

Mathematics and Statistics for Aoteoroa New Zealand provides teachers with easily administered, comprehensive, assessment tools for determining student ability and progress. All pre-tests are scored out of 8 marks. All post-tests are scored out of 26 marks.

Pre-tests

• Diagnostic assessment only
• Auto marked (not teacher marked)
• 8 questions worth 1 mark each
• Administered before a topic is taught to gauge students' ability group.

Post-tests

• Measure topic understanding and identify high performers
• 8 questions worth 26 marks total
• 2x extension questions
   

Pre-tests

The pre-tests are short assessments for each topic that give teachers a quick snapshot of where students are at, and what they still need to learn for each topic. They are designed to help teachers identify each student’s point of need and choose teaching activities that will support the student’s stage of learning. The pre-tests cover foundational content from the previous year and the breadth of subject matter for each topic at the target year level, allowing teachers to identify the learning pathway for each student. Pre-tests can be administered immediately before a topic is taught, or teachers may decide to consult the suggested term planner (or their own scope and sequence) and conduct several pre-tests at the beginning of and during the term. The pre-tests offer teachers an insight into students’ current understanding of each topic to inform their teaching, so the grade/result is designed to determine a student's ability group – it is a diagnostic assessment only.
The questions in the pre-test are auto-marked, worth 1 mark each, and give each student a percentage result that can be used to determine a student's ability group for the topic.
 

Post-tests

The post-tests provide the opportunity to assess students’ understanding of the topic post-teaching and confirm the effectiveness of the teaching activities. The post-test questions cover the target year level (questions 1–6), as well as some content from the next year level (questions 7 and 8), allowing teachers to measure topic understanding and to identify students performing above the expected standard. Each pair of questions in the post-tests becomes progressively more difficult and therefore allows a result which indicates the range across the student group. This means that a student’s result is more nuanced than a result based on questions that are all at the same level of difficulty. Questions 1–6 are worth 4 marks each, making up the majority of the total score. Questions 7 and 8, which test against content from the next year level, are weighted at 1 mark each. This allows teachers to clearly see which students are performing above the year level expectation, while allowing those students performing to year level to attain a high score.
 

Grading Guide

The approach, grading scales, and more detailed information is explained here

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