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Assessment of Achievement Programme
Report of the First AAP Survey of Social Subjects Enquiry Skills (2002)
Appendix C: Test booklet distribution in the schools
Nine enquiry skills written tasks were develop for survey use at each of Levels A to E. Each task comprised three subtasks, each subtask comprising a series of test items based on a different information source (text, diagram, chart, map, etc). Tasks were presented to pupils as stand-alone test booklets, in which the enquiry skills task was followed by a writing task relating to the same task topic.
Each survey school provided 18 randomly selected pupils at the relevant stage to attempt written tasks, and every pupil was allocated two test booklets to attempt. Each booklet pair contained booklets from adjacent levels and two different social subjects outcomes. P3 pupils attempted tasks at Levels A and B, P5 pupils attempted tasks at Levels B and C, P7 took Levels C and D, and S2 took Levels D and E. Thus, one P5 pupil will have taken a Level B People in Society booklet (enquiry skills task plus writing task) along with a Level C People in the Past booklet, while another will have attempted a Level B People in the Past booklet and a Level C People and Place booklet.
The booklet pairings were as follows at P5, with parallel pairing strategies being used at the other stages also:
Pairing | Booklet 1 | Booklet 2 |
1 | BP1 | CL1 |
2 | BS1 | CL1 |
3 | BS1 | CP1 |
4 | BL1 | CP1 |
5 | BL1 | CS1 |
6 | BP2 | CS1 |
7 | BP2 | CL2 |
8 | BS2 | CL2 |
9 | BS2 | CP2 |
10 | BL2 | CP2 |
11 | BL2 | CS2 |
12 | BP3 | CS2 |
13 | BP3 | CL3 |
14 | BS3 | CL3 |
15 | BS3 | CP3 |
16 | BL3 | CP3 |
17 | BL3 | CS3 |
18 | BP1 | CS3 |
where
BP1 is a Level B booklet focusing on 'People in the Past', Topic 1 (from this outcome)
BP2 is a Level B booklet focusing on 'People in the Past', Topic 2 (from this outcome)
BL2 is a Level B booklet focusing on 'People and Place', Topic 2 (from this outcome)
etc.
In this design, every booklet appears in two different booklet pairings, every outcome appears at each level in six booklet pairings, and every outcome is paired with each of the other two six times.
Wherever possible, all booklet pairs were administered in every survey school, so that all booklets would eventually be attempted by similar numbers of pupils: between 200 and 250 pupils per booklet.
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