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Benchmarking Year 4 Writing performance: Are standards being met
The numeracy and reading sections compare student performance to proficiency scales that describe expected student performance, based on the number of years of schooling. A proficiency scale for writing ability is not, however, currently available, although one will be created and the PILNA 2021 writing results will be compared to it.
For now, average writing performance in PILNA 2021 is compared to writing performance over previous PILNA cycles. This gives an indication of how writing performance is trending over time, but it does not show whether writing performance is at the level Pacific stakeholders expect it to be.
As shown in the year four writing performance section, the average writing score for year four students in Solomon Islands increased substantially in 2021 from previous years. In 2015 it was 427.73 (SD = 82.42), in 2018 it was 427.82 (SD = 93.40), and in 2021 it was 475.98 (SD = 41.12).
Solomon Island students performed at about the same level in writing as did those in the region (Figure CWF4.9). On average, year four students in Solomon Islands scored 476 and in the region they scored 484.
