1. Qatar Comprehensive Educational Assessment (QCEA) 2007: Summary of Results

2. 2 Agenda 1. Overview of the QCEA program 2. Better understanding the QCEA 2007 assessment results 3. QCEA 2007 independent school assessment results, by grade 1. Summary of results 2. Arabic: overall, gender, and independent school cohort 3. English: overall, gender, and independent school cohort 4. Mathematics: overall, gender, and independent school cohort 5. Science: overall, gender, and independent school cohort 4. QCEA 2005, 2006, and 2007 comparisons of independent school results, across time 1. Key assumptions 2. Summary of results 3. Arabic: All students and independent school cohort 4. English: All students and independent school cohort 5. Mathematics: All students and independent school cohort 6. Science: All students and independent school cohort

3. 3 Overview of the QCEA program QCEA program Measures student performance with respect to the Qatar Curriculum Standards Assesses Arabic, English, Mathematics, and Science learning in Grades 4 to11 Administered to approximately 18,000 students, attending Qatar independent schools, in the Spring of 2007 About Reporting the QCEA 2007 Assessment Individual student reports distributed to students, parents, and schools Class reports in each subject-matter for teachers, containing data about their current students

4. 4 Better understanding the QCEA 2007 results Performance levels and scale scores: Each student receives a scale score in each content area and in some sub-areas Scale scores are also converted into performance levels thus indicating whether a student has met the standards Five performance levels are considered, with three of those embedded within the “Below Standards” description for the sake of better discrimination among the poorer performers: – “Meets Standards” (level 5) – “Approaches Standards” (level 4) – “Below Standards” (levels 1–3)

5. QCEA 2007 independent school results by grade Summary of results Arabic: overall, gender, and independent school cohort English: overall, gender, and independent school cohort Mathematics: overall, gender, and independent school cohort Science: overall, gender, and independent school cohort

6. 6 Summary of Results: QCEA 2007 Performance level results across subject-matter: overall and gender Subject-matter Although scale score comparisons among subject- matters are not valid, performance level proportions can be contrasted. In this respect students tended to perform better on the Arabic and English tests than on the mathematics and science instruments – A larger proportion of students scored in the “Meets Standards” performance level in Arabic and English, as compared to mathematics and science. – A smaller proportion of students scored in the “Below Standards: Level 1” in Arabic and English, as compared to mathematics and science. Gender Girls tended to perform better than boys in all subjects. Boys and girls performed mostly similar to each other in mathematics, Grade 4.

7. 7 Summary of Results: QCEA 2007 Performance level results across subject-matter: independent school cohort Independent school cohort Across all grades and subject-matter, Cohort 1 tended to perform better than Cohort 2; and both Cohorts 1 and Cohort 2 tended to perform better than Cohort 3. – Exceptions include: Mathematics, grade 4, where Cohort 3 performed slightly better than Cohort 2. Science, Grades 4 and 6, where all three cohorts performed mostly similar to each other in the “Meets Standards” and “Approaches Standards” performance levels Science, Grade 5, where Cohort 3 performed better than Cohorts 1 and 2.

8. 8 Arabic : overall Performance level results, QCEA 2007 By grade Percentage of students in: Meets Standards ranges from 2% (Grade 9) to 7% (Grade 11) Approaches Standards ranges from 19% (Grade 8) to 30% (Grade 6) Below Standards ranges from 65% (Grade 5) to 79% (Grade 8)

9. 9 Arabic : gender Performance level results, QCEA 2007 Boys Percentage of students in: Meets Standards ranges from 1% (Grade 9) to 4% (Grade 5) Approaches Standards ranges from 13% (Grade 8) to 22% (Grade 5) Below Standards ranges from 75% (Grade 5) to 85% (Grade 8) Girls Percentage of students in: Meets Standards ranges from 2% (Grade 9) to 13% (Grade 11) Approaches Standards ranges from 27% (Grade 8) to 39% (Grade 6) Below Standards ranges from 50% (Grade 11) to 69% (Grade 8)

10. 10 Arabic : cohort Performance level results, QCEA 2007 Cohort 1 Percentage of students in: Meets Standards ranges from 2% (Grade 9) to 13% (Grade 11) Approaches Standards ranges from 24% (Grade 8) to 43% (Grade 10) Cohort 2 Percentage of students in Meets Standards ranges from 1% (Grades 4 and 9) to 6% (Grade 11) Approaches Standards ranges from 18% (Grade 8) to 26% (Grade 6) Cohort 3 Percentage of students in Meets Standards ranges from 1% (Grades 6 and 9) to 5% (Grade 7) Approaches Standards ranges from 11% (Grade 11) to 19% (Grade 7)

11. 11 English : overall Performance level results, QCEA 2007 By grade Percentage of students in: Meets Standards ranges from 3% (Grade 8) to 12% (Grade 4) Approaches Standards ranges from 14% (Grade 8) to 27% (Grade 5) Below Standards ranges from 63% (Grade 4) to 84% (Grade 8)

12. 12 Boys Percentage of students in: Meets Standards ranges from 2% (Grade 8) to 8% (Grade 4) Approaches Standards ranges from 9% (Grade 8) to 20% (Grade 4) Below Standards ranges from 73% (Grade 4) to 90% (Grade 8) Girls Percentage of students in: Meets Standards ranges from 5% (Grades 8) to 20% (Grade 11) Approaches Standards ranges from 17% (Grades 9) to 35% (Grade 5) Below Standards ranges from 54% (Grade 5) to 74% (Grade 9) English : gender Performance level results, QCEA 2007

13. 13 English : cohort Performance level results, QCEA 2007 Cohort 1 Percentage of students in Meets Standards ranges from 5% (Grade 8) to 26% (Grade 11) Approaches Standards ranges from 24% (Grades 8 and 9) to 43% (Grade 5) Cohort 2 Percentage of students in Meets Standards ranges from 1% (Grade 8) to 7% (Grades 10 and 11) Approaches Standards ranges from 10% (Grade 8) to 19% (Grades 5 and 6) Cohort 3 Percentage of students in Meets Standards ranges from less than 1% (Grades 4 – 6) to 5% (Grade 7) Approaches Standards ranges from 4% (Grade 10) to 15% (Grade 7)

14. 14 Mathematics : overall Performance level results, QCEA 2007 By grade Percentage of students in: Meets Standards ranges from less than 1% (Grades 4 to 9 and 11) to 5% (Grade 10) Approaches Standards ranges from 7% (Grade 4) to 38% (Grade 10) Below Standards ranges from 57% (Grade 10) to 93% (Grade 4)

15. 15 Mathematics : gender Performance level results, QCEA 2007 Boys Percentage of students in: Meets Standards ranges from less than 1% (Grades 4 to 9, and 11) to barely less than 3% (Grade 10) Approaches Standards ranges from 6% (Grade 4) to 29% (Grade 10) Below Standards ranges from 67% (Grade 10) to 94% (Grade 4) Girls Percentage of students in: Meets Standards ranges from less than 1% (Grades 4 to 9) to 8% (Grade 10) Approaches Standards ranges from 8% (Grade 4) to 52% (Grade 10) Below Standards ranges from 40% (Grade 10) to 93% (Grade 4)

16. 16 Mathematics : cohort Performance level results, QCEA 2007 Cohort 1 Percentage of students in Meets Standards ranges from less than 1% (Grades 4, 5 and 7 to 9) to 14% (Grade 10) Approaches Standards ranges from 11% (Grade 4) to 55% (Grade 11) Cohort 2 Percentage of students in Meets Standards ranges from less than 1% (Grades 4 to 9 and 11) to 4% (Grade 10) Approaches Standards ranges from 3% (Grade 4) to 37% (Grade 10) Cohort 3 Percentage of students in Meets Standards is less than 1% in all Grades Approaches Standards ranges from 3% (Grade 5) to 25% (Grade 10)

17. 17 Science : overall Performance level results, QCEA 2007 By grade Percentage of students in: Meets Standards is less than 1% in all grades Approaches Standards ranges from 1% (Grade 11) to 27% (Grade 9) Below Standards ranges from 73% (Grade 9) to 99% (Grades 10 and 11)

18. 18 Boys Percentage of students in: Meets Standards is less than 1% in all grades Approaches Standards ranges from less than 1% (Grade 11) to 26% (Grade 9) Below Standards ranges from 74% (Grade 9) to more than 99% (Grade 11) Female Performance Percentage of students in: Meets Standards is less than 1% in all grades Approaches Standards ranges from 1% (Grade 11) to 30% (Grade 9) Below Standards ranges from 71% (Grades 9) to 99% (Grade 11) Science : gender Performance level results, QCEA 2007

19. 19 Science : cohort Performance level results, QCEA 2007 Cohort 1 Percentage of students in: Meets Standards is 0% in every grade, except grades 6 and 8 (one student in Grade 6, and one in Grade 8, achieved “Meets Standards”) Approaches Standards ranges from 1% (Grade 11) to 46% (Grade 9) Cohort 2 Percentage of students in: Meets Standards is 0% in every grade, except Grades 7 and 8 (three students in Grade 7 and one student in Grade 8, achieved “Meets Standards”) Approaches Standards ranges from 1% (Grade 11) to 23% (Grade 5) Cohort 3 Percentage of students in: Meets Standards is 0% in every grade, except Grades 5 and 7 (one student in Grade 5, and one in Grade 7, achieved “Meets Standards”) Approaches Standards ranges from less than 1% (Grades 10 and 11) to 28% (Grade 5)