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: Introduction 2004
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The 2004 technology assessments included 11 assessment tasks classified as relating to technological capability.

Nine of the tasks were identical for year 4 and year 8 students. The remaining two tasks were given only to year 8 students.

Five are trend tasks (fully described with data for both 2000 and 2004), one is a released task (fully described with data for 2004 only) and five are link tasks (to be used again in 2008, so only partially described here).

The task details and results for the five trend tasks are presented in the first section, followed by the task details and results for the released task. The third section contains some task information and the results for the five link tasks.

Comparing results for year 4 and year 8 students
Averaged across 92 task components, 10 percent more year 8 than year 4 students or teams produced correct or strong responses. This indicates that, on average, students have made useful progress between year 4 and year 8 in the skills and understandings assessed by the tasks. Gains were generally greatest on task components requiring explanation or justification.

Trend results: Comparing 2000 and 2004 results
Five trend tasks were administered to students in both the 2000 and 2004 assessments.

For year 4 students, based on 48 components of four trend tasks, there was a small improvement between 2000 and 2004. On average, three percent more students succeeded with the task components in 2004. The 2004 students scored higher on 26 components and lower on 18, with no change on four components.

For year 8 students, based on 62 components of five trend tasks, there was no change between 2000 and 2004. On average, the same percentage of students succeeded with the task components in 2000 and 2004. The 2004 students scored higher on 26 components and lower on 32, with no change on four components.

 
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