Assessment Module

Assessment Code

PEMS tracks any number of assessments and relates each assessment to programs, subjects, curriculum selection, grade level and grade span. The assessment are defined in the assessment code table, and they may be linked to any combination of the above records.  The assessment code is a plan to asses a student for an indicator, it is not the actual student result.

Assessment Results

Each time the student completes an assessment, the user makes an assessment result record.  Which assessment the student takes is defined by the assessment code, and the results contains the students score.  The assessment also tracks when the student took the assessment, so that the students progress can be tracked over time.  Based on the date of the assessment result, the record is linked the the school term.  

This result should also be linked to the student term, not the school term so that the records may be displayed correctly on the transcript. This may be accomplished with automation based on the test date.

Marks Matrix

The marks matrix table allows the user to interprets the raw scores of each assessment in a consistent manner.  Multiple marks matrix records are created for each assessment code record.  Each mark matrix record specifies a low mark and high mark. If the raw score stored in the assessment result record falls inside the range of a specific marks matrix record, then the assessment result records will read the 'normalized' score from the mark matrix record and update the assessment result record.

For example, a student achieves a score of 240 on a  specific test with a maximum score of 300.  The test itself is represented by an assessment code record.   If a student is on track, a normal 9th grader, then the student should receive a score of 250. If the student received a score of 300, maybe the student is testing like a 10th grader. If the student has a score of 150, then the student has knowledge of 7th grader.  So this student, with a score of 240, may be about 8th grade, 6th month of school.