Candidates in Subjects (1 Viewer)

[Mooray]

Hey i was wondering if there is anywhere i can find out the number of candidates for all subjects for this year, if not years gone by.
cheers.

 

[Lazarus]

I've been told that the Board will be releasing that data sometime this month.

Data relating to previous years can be obtained from their statistics archive or the Technical Committe's annual scaling reports.

 

[acmilan]

The newspaper had some stats recently, mainly on the fact that Dance had the greatest rate of increase and that Chinese became the most popular language this year

 

[Lazarus]

Incidentally, recent stats for 2004 are now available - serendipitous timing.

James

As requested, attached are the candidatures in each HSC course as at 1
September 2004.

Andrew Goodyer
Chief Project Officer
Office of the Board of Studies NSW
Ph: (02) 9367 8260
Fax: (02) 9367 8478

(See attached file: HSC Course Entries 2004.pdf)

 

[aud]

I'm one of 26 guys out of 1734 T&D students... 1.5% of the total... hmm... I feel like such a statistic...

 

[chepas]

Hey cool, statistics.

8.3% of the French Extension candidature are doing it through the Open High School.

And as one person I make up 0.003684598% (prob. more decimal points??) of the English Advanced candidature....

 

[acmilan]

SDD has had such a dramatic drop in numbers

 

[hfis]

SDD has had such a dramatic drop in numbers

I'm going out on a limb here, but do you think that might make it scale better than in previous years? I hope so, as it's my best subject.

 

[acmilan]

I dont think numbers affect scaling

 

[Lazarus]

SDD has had such a dramatic drop in numbers

I'm going out on a limb here, but do you think that might make it scale better than in previous years?

It's possible. Though it could go both ways.

Scaling typically changes due to shifts in course candidatures.

If the students who chose not to take SDD this year were, on average, students of lesser academic ability, then the overall quality of the candidature will have been raised relative to previous years. This may result in a higher scaled mean.

On the other hand, if the students who chose not to take the course were, on average, students of greater academic ability, the overall quality of the candidature will have been lowered. This might result in a lower scaled mean.

A 'very able' student is one who tends to do well in all of their courses - not just SDD.

Which of the two scenarios is the most likely? We don't really know.

I'd be inclined to lean in favour of the former.