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

Type

EachThe timeassessment Type field has the three options for the different types of assessments that PEMS supports. 

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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,Assessment acodes with type = level equivalent, the normalized score will be the level equivalent field from the matching marks matrix record. For assessment codes with type = percentile rank, the normalized score will be the percentile rank score from the matching marks matrix record.

note: Add the "percentile rank" field to the mark matrix record

The marks matrix table is not used for competency based assessments since these assessments are either passed or not passed, they are not comparative in nature.

Assessment Results

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note: 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.

note: add the field "percentile rank" to the assessment result record.

 

Competency-Based Assessments

If the assessment code type is set to competency-based assessment, then the studentmarks shouldmatrix receivewill not be used. This type of code is only used with tight synchronization between PEMS and Moodle.  Students only demonstrate they meet the competencies through completing certain assignments in various Moodle courses.

The assessment code records that are competency type must correspond to the competencies in Moodle.  The assessment code in PEMS must be the exact same text string as the Competency Code in Moodle.

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 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.