Assessment Systems

Two common forms of assessment used in schools are the Six Year Net and the Progress Achievement Tests (P.A.T.)

The Six Year Net measures various parts of the reading process and the results are expressed as a stanine. Stanine 1 – 3 would roughly be below average, stanine 4 – 6 average and stanine 7 – 9 above average.

The P.A.T’s measure Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary and Maths and are introduced at Year 3 (Listening) and Year 4 and above for the rest. Results are expressed as stanines (as above) and / or percentiles. A child who scored 60 percentile has performed better than 60% of children at that age level.

Junior reading colours of levels confuse most of us. The translation scale is: