Technical reports
Technical report index
Project asTTle includes a programme of research that has informed the development of the assessment tools.
The index lists all reports by author and report number sequences and provides content categories for easy selection. The index also provides a brief summary of each report to aid the user in selecting the most appropriate report.
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Technical report categories
This section contains all the research undertaken by the asTTle team, categorised for ease of searching.
To view each report in the following sections click on the title of the report.
asTTle evaluations and teacher feedback
English medium
- Evaluation of the first trials of reading and writing assessments (2000) (PDF, 109kb)
- Evaluation of the second trial of reading and writing assessment papers (2000) (PDF, 146kb)
- Report on teacher feedback from the first calibration of reading and writing assessments (2001) (PDF, 152kb)
- Teacher feedback from the linking calibration of reading and writing assessments (2001) (PDF, 129kb)
- Teacher evaluation of the second calibration of reading and writing assessments: Summary (2001) (PDF, 117kb)
- Report on teacher feedback from the first calibration of mathematics assessments (2002) (PDF, 107kb)
- Teacher evaluation of the reading level 4 assessments: Summary (2002) (PDF, 106kb)
- Report on teacher feedback from the first calibration of mathematics assessments (2002) (PDF, 104kb)
- Report on teacher feedback from the third calibration of writing assessments (2001) (PDF, 101kb)
- Overall summary of teacher feedback from the calibrations and trials of the asTTle reading, writing, and mathematics assessments (2002) (PDF, 293kb)
- The evaluation of asTTle in schools: The power of professional development (2003) (PDF, 309kb)
- Improving asTTle for secondary school use: Teacher and student feedback (2003) (PDF, 223kb)
- Use of asTTle in secondary schools: Evaluation of the pilot release of asTTle V3 (2004) (PDF, 593kb)
- Summary of teacher feedback from the secondary school calibration of asTTle reading and writing assessments for curriculum levels 4 to 6 (2004) (PDF, 120kb)
Māori medium
- Summary of the teacher feedback from the calibration of asTTle V2 pānui, pāngarau, and tuhituhi assessments (2002) (PDF, 240kb)
- Summary of the teacher feedback from the calibration of asTTle V3 pāngarau assessments (2003) (PDF, 173kb)
- Summary of teacher feedback from the V4 calibration of asTTle pānui and tuhituhi assessments for curriculum levels 2 to 6 (2004) (PDF, 213kb)
Curriculum
English medium
- Mapping the English curriculum (2000) (PDF, 129kb)
- Development of the asTTle writing assessment rubrics for scoring extended writing tasks (2001) (PDF, 267kb)
- Item signature study: Report on the characteristics of reading texts and items from calibration 1 (2001) (PDF, 368kb)
- Item signature study: Report on the characteristics of reading texts and items from calibration 2 (2001) (PDF, 381kb)
- Item signature study: Report on the characteristics of reading texts and items from calibration 3 (2002) (PDF, 188kb)
- Using asTTle persuasive writing: A case student of teaching argument writing (2003) (PDF, 249kb)
- English reading curriculum framework and map: Levels 2–6 (2003) (PDF, 390kb)
- Written language curriculum framework and map (2003) (PDF, 235kb)
- Writing at level 5–6 of the New Zealand English curriculum: Development of progress indicators and tasks (2003) (PDF, 284kb)
- Scoring of a nationally representative sample of student writing at level 5–6 of the New Zealand English curriculum: use and refinement of the asTTle progress indicators and tasks (2004) (PDF, 705kb)
- Standard setting for asTTle reading: a comparison of methods (2003) (PDF, 699kb)
- Mathematics in the New Zealand curriculum – A concept map of the curriculum document (2001) (PDF, 186kb)
- Strategies and thinking about number in children aged 9–11 years (2002) (PDF, 175kb)
- Paper and pencil strategy assessment items for the New Zealand number framework: Pilot study (2002) (PDF, 910kb)
- Numeracy item signature study: A theoretically derived basis (2002) (PDF, 453kb)
- Mathematics curriculum framework and map: Levels 2–6 (2003) (PDF, 261kb)
- Assessment of student number strategy development: A case study in the use of paper and pencil items (2004) (PDF, 236kb)
Māori medium
- Pāngarau curriculum framework and map: Levels 2–4 (2001) (PDF, 267kb)
- Te Reo Māori literacy curriculum map: Levels 2–4 (2002) (PDF, 304kb)
- Pāngarau curriculum framework and map: Levels 2–6 (2003) (PDF, 254kb)
- Review of Māori literacy framework for koeke 2–6 pānui/tuhituhi of the Māori language curriculum statement, Te Reo Māori I roto I nga Marautanga o Aotearoa (2003) (PDF, 274kb)
Reporting of achievement
- Comparison variables useful to teachers in analysing assessment results (2000) (PDF, 142kb)
- Output reporting design: Focus group 1 (2001) (PDF, 129kb)
- Output reporting design: Focus group 2 (2001) (PDF, 121kb)
- Reporting assessment information to teachers: Report of Project asTTle outputs design (2001) (PDF, 293kb)
- Schools like mine: Cluster analysis of New Zealand schools (2002) (PDF, 191kb)
Technical
- A review of linear programming and its application to the Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning (asTTle) projects (2000) (PDF, 1739kb)
- Validation evidence of asTTle reading assessment results: Norms and criteria (2003) (PDF, 424kb)
- Accuracy in the scoring of writing: Study in large-scale scoring of asTTle writing assessments (2003) (PDF, 202kb)
General
- A national teacher-managed curriculum-based assessment system: Assessment tools for teacher and learning (asTTle 2003) (PDF, 242kb)
- Cognitive processes in asTTle: The SOLO taxonomy (2004) (PDF, 473kb)
- Assessment of student number strategy development: A case study in the use of paper and pencil items (PDF, 236kb)
