OS-23: Out-of-Level Norms Reporting
DESCRIPTION
The procedures for out-of-level
testing are described in the Teacher's Guide or Examiner's Manual. This
service allows the reporting of out-of-level norms on the scoring reports:
it does not generate a separate report
The grade that you indicate on a Class ID Sheet determines which grade's
norms tables will be used in the derivation of the students' National
Percentile Rank scores.
With on-level testing, your choice of grade is generally limited to one
or two possibilities for each level.
For example: For CTBS Form K, regardless of which Level from 9
to 14 is administered for the class, with Out-of-Level Norms Reporting,
you may relate the students' performance to any grade from 3 through 8,
for Fall, Midyear or Spring semesters. In addition, Level 14 may be used
with norms for Grade 9 (Fall, Midyear, Spring), and Level 9 may be used
with norms for Grade 2 Spring.
If you are testing out-of-level:
- choose OS-23 on the Order for Scoring Service
- fill in the "Out-of-Level Testing" bubble on the applicable Class
Identification Sheet(s)
For orders that
do not include OS-23, two situations might arise
during the processing of the order:
- If we encounter student(s) who are clearly marked as out-of-level
(e.g., a CTBS class using level 10 and coded as grade 7), we will
automatically add OS-23 to your order and process the class(es) with
out-of-level norms reporting.
- If we encounter a class whose grade is not on-level, and where there
is some confusion about the "correct" grade for the class (e.g., the
students have written "grade 6" on their level-12 answer sheets, but
the CTBS Class ID Sheet is coded as grade 7), we will revise the grade
on the Class ID Sheet, to be the nearest on-level grade (in this example,
grade 6).
If your students are tested out-of-level (e.g., tested with level 10 in
grade 7), then this can limit the information available in these item/skill
analysis reports (when ordered):
- OS-5 - Group Item Analysis
- OS-5G - Group Skill Summaries
- OS-6 - Individual Item Analysis
- OS-7 - Skill Summary by Student
See
Service Options List
for details on each service above.
If
OS-40 is used to select
building/system averages for any of these five scores:
- Number Attempted
- Percent Attempted
- Raw Score
- Percent Correct
- the Chance-Score Indicator
and if the grade contains students who were tested with more than one
level, then the averages for the five scores will be left blank on the
Building and System Averages Reports and on the following (when ordered):
- OS-9 - Building & System Averages, Sorted by Grade
- OS-19 - Special Group Averages
- OS-24 - Male & Female Averages
- OS-34 - Extra Set of Building & System Averages
See
Service Options List
for details on each service above.
For example: With CTBS it is not appropriate to report an average for
the Raw Scores when levels 10 and 11 are both involved within one grade.
SPECIAL NOTE
OS-23 requires special coding of the Class ID sheets.
