Detection of unusual scores of individual students for immediate remedy according to daily assessment data

Abstract

Purpose

The availability of daily assessment data in a centralized monitoring system at school provides the opportunity to detect unusual scores soon after the assessment is carried out. This paper introduces a model for the detection of unusual scores of individual students to immediately improve performances that deviate from a normal state.

Design/methodology/approach

A student's ability, a subject's difficulty level, a student's specific ability in a subject, and the difficulty level of an assessment in a subject are selected as factor effects of a linear ANOVA model. Through analysis of variance, a case study is conducted based on 330 data points of assessment scores of primary grade students retrieved from an international school in Japan.

Findings

The actual score is below the lower control limit, which is recognized as an unusual score, and the score can be detected immediately after sitting for an assessment and is beneficial for students to take immediate remedies based on daily assessment. This is demonstrated through a case study.

Originality/value

The detection of unusual scores based on a linear model of individual students soon after each assessment benefits from immediate remedy aligns with a daily management concept. The daily assessment data in a school system enable detection based on individual students, subject-wise and assessment-wise to improve student performances in the same academic year.

Citation

Alauddin, N. and Yamada, S. (2023), "Detection of unusual scores of individual students for immediate remedy according to daily assessment data", The TQM Journal, Vol. 35 No. 6, pp. 1514-1531. https://doi.org/10.1108/TQM-04-2022-0125