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THE Welsh government recently circulated a parents' and carers' guide to literacy and numeracy tests in the country's schools. Feedback now seeks help with our homework, which is to interpret a graph from the guide.
It plots "progress score" against school year. The caption explains, perhaps: "progress scores shown are for a child taking the Year 3 test in 2013 and the Year 4 test in 2014. The solid line on the progress score charts represents the mid-point in the progress scores achieved in each year group. Half of the children taking the tests would be expected to achieve a score that lies between the two dotted lines." These, on the graph, were labelled "Progress score 2013" and "Progress score 2014".
The caption goes on: "A quarter of the pupils in each year ...
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