Study Score Analysis

[Quppa]

I posted this on Bored of Studies, but that forum seems rather inactive.

Using the results published on the Herald Sun website I made some lists, including rankings by school and by student (they don't take into account scaling or anything like that, so don't read too much into them).

I also uploaded last year's results for comparison.

Now with 10 years' worth of data:

http://www.quppa.net/studyscores.html

[Collin Li]

Sounds interesting, but doesn't ranking by school already get done by the papers? How does ranking by student work?

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Oh wow, I had a look. Great job

[costargh]

Wow thats incredible.
Wouldn't that have taken ages!

[Collin Li]

Wow thats incredible.
Wouldn't that have taken ages!

He/she probably wrote a script to parse the online data provided on www.heraldsun.com.au

Wouldn't take that long, but the effort is still appreciated

[Quppa]

Yeah, I didn't do it by hand

Just a little java program to sort through it all.

[costargh]

Oh ok..  Its great though. Go check out St John's Regional College =) lol

[brendan]

i don't see how it is any more informative than the official data published by VCAA

[Collin Li]

i don't see how it is any more informative than the official data published by VCAA

It is a re-organised form (in many permutations) of the data published by VCAA

[costargh]

Break down of number of 50's through to 40's for starters. The composition of study scores over 40.

[Ahmad]

Interesting analysis! Appreciate it.

I'm 8th in the student by scores! 

[cara.mel]

That is very nice indeed

Sure beats me going through by hand collecting everyone from my year level from my campus from my school and ignoring the rest of them.

[brendan]

i don't see how it is any more informative than the official data published by VCAA

It is a re-organised form (in many permutations) of the data published by VCAA

the data here doesn't take into account the total number of students sitting a 3/4 subject so that larger schools have a natural advantage if you only measure the number of study scores above 40 rather than the percentage of study scores above 40 (official stats from VCAA measure percentage)

the VCAA data is already plagued enough by not taking into account differences in the strength of competition between studies (using scaled scores will fix that) and that many students at independent schools take the IB which do not generate "study scores" (using median ENTER or percentage of ENTERs above 90 will fix that)

[Collin Li]

True.

I didn't say it was a more statistically appropriate form, though. I just said it was re-organised in several forms.

[Quppa]

Quite right, the rankings are in absolute numbers with no relation to school populations, but it would be a lot more work to gather all those statistics. These lists are just compiled from each individual study's page on the Herald Sun website.

[Mao]

my school is in serious disadvantage, having such a small cohort size as it is our first year....

but still, nice to see a different presentation