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CAT4 Scoring and Reports

CTC offers a wide array of reporting services for CAT·4. Individual, group and summary reports are available to meet the needs of your classrooms, schools and district. You can learn more about our different reports below. To order reports, please visit our Scoring Service Downloads page.

Sample Reports

The tables below explain what all the reports are.

ReportsREPORTING LEVELTYPES OF SCORES
Individual Student ScoresClass Summary ScoresSchool Summary ScoresDistrict Summary ScoresNorm - Referenced InformationCriterion - Referenced Information
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Norm-Referenced Information

PERCENTILESTANINEGRADE EQUIVALENT
WHAT IT ISHow student’s score compares to the scores of other students in the same reference groupEach percentile rank is placed in one of nine categoriesEstimate of student's grade-level functioning on a given test
REFERENCE GROUPSNational (NP)
Regional (RP)*
District (LP)
National (NS)
Regional (RS)*
District (LS)
National (GE)
POSSIBLE SCORES(low) 1 to 99 (high)(low) 1 to 9 (high)K to 12
WHY IT IS USEFULShows precisely how a student is performing in comparison with others at the same gradeProvides quick and simple informationShows a student's progress from year to year
WHY IT CAN BE CONFUSINGIt is so precise that variations are bound to occur, partly from chanceIs only sensitive to very large changes in student performanceGrade equivalent does not indicate that the student should be moved up or down to another grade
*available for Western Canada, Ontario, and Atlantic Canada

Criterion-Referenced Information

OBJECTIVE SCORE
WHAT IT ISIndication of whether a student’s score for a test objective meets grade-level expectations
WHY IT IS USEFULClassifies student performance independently of how other students did on the test objective
WHY IT CAN BE CONFUSINGStudent performance classification for an objective is based on only a subset of test items, so classification will be influenced by chance to some degree. However, summary information at the class, school, district levels are much more stable.