ACER PAT, MYAT and AGAT data
Preparing for your initial PAT upload
Due to the absence of exports from ACER OARS which contain detailed skills data for the PAT Adaptive test, we are unable to import PAT Adaptive to Explorer. We suggest you contact your ACER representative and make a request to have exports containing all students with their question scores and question skills data added, as is available for non-adaptive PAT. We have written interim recipes for scores data which will appear in Ledger.
The Explorer and Ledger combines results for current & previous years to show longitudinal progress for students and the school as a whole. This is why we need a few years of PAT reporting data to get schools started.
As a rule of thumb, we need as many years of history as the school wishes to see in growth. As a minimum we suggest 4 years, however we can import data as far back as 2013.
Obviously, we need data for all tested cohorts and domains.
Before you import your data, please ensure all of your students have been added to Literatu.
Downloading the Group Reports from ACER OARS
Please export the 'Group Report' format directly from your ACER OARS system to import into Literatu. We need un-edited files.
The following screen animation shows where to find the Group Report. Please contact your ACER support representative if you have additional questions.
Importing PAT Data
The PAT importer updates the Diagnostic Explorer, Insights and Ledger (if licensed) as part of the import process. To load new PAT tests, follow the steps below:
1. Open your browser and go to www.literatu.com
2. Login with your Community Administrator account, and go to https://www.literatu.com/pat/#/import
3. Select PAT / AGAT from the dropdown menu
4. Drag and drop the Group Report files into the 'Drag your files here' frame, or click to open the file explorer. You can load a number of Group Report files at the same time. They can be different domains (e.g Maths and Comprehension).
5. The files will be uploaded and validated. You will the validated list of files in the import queue, where:
File is the name of the file being imported
Test is the short name of the test as it will appear in the Diagnostic Explorer dropdown.
Domain is the test domain, which is defaulted from the import file. You should not need to change this
Cycle Year is the year in which the test was completed, which is defaulted from the import file. You should not need to change this.
Year is the grade/cohort level of the students in the test. If one Group Report contains more than one year, you will see a row of detail for each year.
Progress and Status, which refer to the upload and validation status of each file. If you do not see a green tick in each row, there was an issue uploading and validating the file. Please check that the file is in the correct format. If you can not find the issue, please email the file to support@literatu.com.
Actions. Click the eye icon to preview the file contents. Click the red bin to delete the file from the import queue.
Please ensure all of the information is correct and make any edits required.
6. When you are ready to upload your data, click 'Continue to import'.
7. The next step of the import is name matching; ie matching the students in the Group Reports to students accounts in Literatu.
Because PAT data rarely contains an email address or SIS ID, Literatu matches students by name. We automatically match students where we can. Any students we cannot reliably match appear in a validation screen where you can select the correct student from a dropdown.
If a student does not have a literatu account, their data will be imported in a limited way. They will appear in the Zone of Proximal Development report only. When their Literatu account is loaded and their names are matched, the data will appear in all Diagnostic Explorer reports, in Insights dashboard and in Ledger (if licensed).
8. Click 'Import all files above' to complete the import. A progress bar will track the import and you will see a confirmation message when the import is complete.
The following screen grab shows the import process.
Editing & deleting import batches
To edit the dropdown name, cycle date or to delete imported files:
1. Open your browser and go to www.literatu.com
2. Login with your Community Administrator account, and go to https://www.literatu.com/pat/#/import
3. Click 'Manage my Imports' at the top of the screen.
4. To change the test name, click the name in the grid and edit. Click 'Save Changes' when you have finished.
5. To change the cycle date, click the date in the Cycle column and enter the new value in the popup. Click 'Save Changes' when you have finished.
The following screen grab shows the process to rename a test and change the cycle date.
Imports are deleted by batch, in the same batches in which they were loaded.
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