Data Source: NAPLAN

Designed for: Teachers, school leaders, directors educational leadership and executive directors. The information displayed in each report will be specific to each user; for example, school staff will view their school's results.

Updated: Annually

About this report

The Cohort proficiency reports show the percentage of students in each NAPLAN proficiency level for a selected assessment and domain. The pattern of results can be compared to the Statistically Similar School Group (SSSG) and the State (NSW public schools).

The Cohort proficiency: Assessment year view shows these results broken down by assessment year on the same chart. This supports users to see changes in performance over time.

Users can view results school-wide or use optional demographic filters to select student groups.

Executive directors and directors, educational leadership can also view results aggregated at the principal network and directorate level as appropriate to their role.

The Assessment year view is recommended when comparing performance for a specific assessment and domain over time.

When a single assessment year is selected, ‘Assessment year view’ shows the same content as ' Overall view’.

Note: This report is based on the assessment school. It displays all students who participated in the NAPLAN assessment at the school.

How to use the report

Select the Assessment School, Assessment, Domain and Assessment year/s.

Optional slicers allow you to analyse the performance of different equity groups and/or selected subsets of students. These slicers include Aboriginality, EAL/D, Gender, SEA Quarter (Socio-Economic Advantage), Enrolment type group and Enrolment type, and NCCD adjustment and NCCD category.

Click Reset all slicers to clear selections.

If there is no data for the selected school, please check the slicers to ensure you have selected an assessment that was completed at your school.

Add or remove SSSG and State comparisons to the chart by toggling on the SSSG or State buttons.

Select an alignment marker from the list provided. The alignment marker makes it easier to compare the segments across SSSG and State. Users can set the alignment to:

• All levels
• Exempt/NAS
• NAS/Developing
• Developing/Strong
• Strong/Exceeding.

Some selections will result in notifications in the Commentary box to the right of the chart.

There are two types of notifications:

Hovering the cursor over a segment of the visual provides further details about the data, including:

• Proficiency level
• Percentage (%) of students in level
• Number (#) of students in level
• Total students.

This report presents results based on the assessment school where the NAPLAN assessment was taken, not the student’s enrolment school.

What should I look for?

The Cohort proficiency report can be used to look at school cohort performance across proficiency levels for a specific assessment and domain, and then compared to the SSSG and the State.

This report provides a starting point for a high-level overview of student progress over time.

Examples of analysis scenarios:

• Look at the distribution of students across the proficiency levels in each domain. This may help identify broad areas for attention, differentiated teaching or further investigation.
• Look at the distribution for subsets of students. Use caution when there are small numbers of students in the selected group with equity slicers for Aboriginality, EAL/D, Gender and SEA Quarter if cohort sizes are small.
• Look at the proportion of students in each proficiency level. This may suggest areas where students may need intervention/support or extension/acceleration.

When triangulated with other data, this information may assist in identifying the success of current teaching strategies. It may also help to identify opportunities to support student learning in one or more specific domains.