The structure of PAT Adaptive maintains students' familiar PAT testing experience with only minor changes.
The most significant change is that it is not possible to display the total number of items at the beginning of the test. The nature of adaptive assessment means that students will likely see different items, and different numbers of items, in their tests.
The navigation bar at the top of the screen will expand to show the next group of items each time the student begins a new stage.
Students must view (not necessarily respond to) at least half of the items in Stage 3 of their test in order to receive a scale score. Tests submitted prematurely will be flagged as ‘Invalid: insufficient items viewed’ and excluded from the PAT Data Explorer. These tests may be re-opened to allow students to complete them. Students should be discouraged from skipping items without reading them.