Cutoff Scores
- Anna Dashkova (Unlicensed)
The Dossier System allows for upload of PAT data to the system and provides deep access to analysis on the provided data (Summaries, Details, Trends, etc). In order to take advantage of this functionality the PAT results must be uploaded to the system and have detailed settings entered regarding each PAT exam. On the page, you can find a description of how to add Cutoff Scores to the Dossier.
1. Get the PAT/Diploma Results
Alberta Ed made change for PAT/Diploma result file.
Starting from 2017, all the results in PAT/Diploma will contain in one zip file. The zip file will contain all the PAT results for all tests in one or multiple school year.
Go to Alberta Education website: https://education.alberta.ca/.
Click the Extranet Login (for administrators) button.
Login using the account you have.
After login, it will redirect to the homepage, click the application icon at the top of the page.
In application page, there will one section for Exam Reports, click the launch button to open the
extranet page. If that section does not exist, contact Alberta Edu to confirm the access rights.
In file exchange page, download the achievement data. Select the years of data need to upload,
multi-year data can be selected, make sure the everything in the courses folder for each year
are selected. When select one school year, everything under that school year will be selected by
default.
After selection, click the download selected files button under file selection, a zip file will start to
download. This is the files used to upload to Dossier.
In the Dossier PAT/Diploma module go to upload area. For the .zip file:
Click add file
Browse to the zip file just downloaded for PAT.
Click save.
The screen will provide details of the upload (new info/inserts or updates to previously uploaded PAT/Diploma exam).
2. Setup the PAT Cut Scores
In order for Dossier to run calculations and display data for the exams it must be made aware of the cut scores for each exam.
Go to Settings –> Course Cutoffs.
Select one of the district exams result that are entered/uploaded into the system by Test Term and Course Code.
Example file name will be PAT0600-001-[A.XXXX].pdf, path will be similar to Assessment\PAT\2017\January\Courses\English Language Arts 30-1 (ELA3105)
Enter or confirm scores from Table 2.2 of a District level pdf PAT Results document.
Dossier Field | PDF Field |
|---|---|
Max. Score / Total Exam | Acceptable Standard Total Test / Maximum Possible Score |
Max. Score / Section 1 | Acceptable Standard Writing / Maximum Possible Score |
Max. Score / Section 2 | Acceptable Standard Reading / Maximum Possible Score |
Excellent / Total Exam | Standard of Excellence Total Test / Cut Score |
Excellent / Section 1 | Standard of Excellence Writing / Cut Score |
Excellent / Section 2 | Standard of Excellence Reading / Cut Score |
Acceptable / Total Exam | Acceptable Standard Total Test / Cut Score |
Acceptable / Section 1 | Acceptable Standard Writing / Cut Score |
Acceptable / Section 2 | Acceptable Standard Reading / Cut Score |
If there’s no section 1 and section 2, please leave the fields blank.
In Page 6, Table 4, there are the District Average and Province Average.
In page 6, table 4, there are the district average and province average.
In page 3, table 2.1, there are the provincial participate rate, district/ province acceptable
percentage and district/ province excellence percentage by all students.
In Page 4, Table 2.2, there are the District/Province Acceptable Percentage and District/Province
Excellence Percentage by students write the test.Click the save button to save the data. Then Dossier will start to calculate the student result based on the cutoff score. When the message “Summary Data Updated” show on the screen, the summary data is available.