: Link Tasks
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Link Task 1
Approach: Independent
Instructions: Students attempted computations involving addition.
	% responses
	y4	y8
Item: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7	91 72 79 51 59	95 91 96 90 90 67 57

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Link Task 2
Approach: Independent
Instructions: Students attempted computations involving subtraction.
	% responses
	y4	y8
Number correct: 30 27–29 21–26 15–20 <15	19 28 23 15 15	51 36 9 3 1

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Link Task 3
Approach: Independent
Instructions: Students attempted computations involving multiplication.
	% responses
	y4	y8
Item: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7	61 18 34 19 8	95 76 88 76 58 53 37
Commentary: The results show a very large advance in performance from year 4 to year 8. Item 5 produced over 150 different answers from 450 students; item 7 did likewise for year 8 students.

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Link Task 4
Approach: One to one
Instructions: Students were asked to sort six items into order, and read their results. Year 8 had an additional set to order.
	% responses
	y4	y8
Ordering task 1: order correct one inversion less ordered	71 22 7	96 4 0
Number of items read correctly: 6 5 4 0–3	34 16 35 15	82 9 4 5
Ordering task 2: order correct one inversion less ordered		21 10 69
number of items read correctly: 6 5 4 0–3		58 11 8 23

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Link Task 5
Approach: One to one
Instructions: Students attempted a series of hands-on items involving fractions.
	% responses
	y4	y8
Item: 1 2 3 4 5 6	75 54 46 49	97 89 76 75 21 77

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Link Task 6
Approach: One to one
Instructions: Students used objects to explain mathematical operations.
	% responses
	y4
Item: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8	89 73 76 73 92 57 43 46

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Link Task 7
Approach: Station
Instructions: Students attempted a series of 30 division items.
	% responses
	y8
Number correct: 30 27–29 21–26 15–20 <15	29 27 20 12 12
Commentary: About one quarter of the year 8 students showed quite limited knowledge of division, getting less than 70 percent of the items correct.

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Link Task 8
Approach: Independent
Instructions: Students attempted twelve conversions between fractions, percentages and decimals.
	% responses
	y8
Number correct: 12 9–11 6–8 3–5 0–2	21 20 16 18 25
Commentary: Quite a high percentage of students (43%) succeeded with less than half of the items.