- Best Start Kindergarten Assessment
- A literacy and numeracy assessment conducted for all kindergarten students in the first five weeks of school.
- Learning areas: literacy, numeracy.
Primary assessment tools
Specific assessment tasks
- Phonics Screening Check
- A short, simple assessment that tells teachers how students are progressing in phonics.
- Learning area: literacy.
- Mathematics diagnostic tasks
- Assessment resources for numeracy across the curriculum.
- Learning areas: numeracy, mathematics.
- Reading short assessments
- Questions related to a stimulus text covering reading comprehension, reading processes and vocabulary.
- Learning areas: English, literacy.
- Language conventions short assessments
- Includes specific assessments for grammar, punctuation and spelling, as well as combinations of these language conventions.
- Learning areas: English, literacy.
- Numeracy short assessments
- Questions include opportunities for students to focus on the strategies used, as well as follow up tips for teachers.
- Learning areas: numeracy, mathematics.
- Check-in assessment
- An optional online reading and numeracy assessment for students in Years 5 and 9.
- Available to schools in Term 3, Weeks 5-7 (17 August to 4 September 2020).
- Reading short assessments
- Questions related to a stimulus text covering reading comprehension, reading processes and vocabulary.
- Learning areas: English, literacy.
- Language conventions short assessments
- Includes specific assessments for grammar, punctuation and spelling, as well as combinations of these language conventions.
- Learning areas: English, literacy.
- Numeracy short assessments
- Questions include opportunities for students to focus on the strategies used, as well as follow up tips for teachers.
- Learning areas: numeracy, mathematics.
- VALID
- Science skills test.
- Learning area: science.
Assessment activity templates
- Gallery walk - A gallery walk engages all students in the feedback and reflection process.
- Learning portfolios - Students can upload files, images, record their voice and write reflections. Teachers may annotate learning portfolios.
- Learning logs - Also known as RIQ (recall, insights, and question), learning journals, learning diaries
- Quick, write - A quick writing process where students respond to a question and then share responses.
- Mini whiteboards - Students write responses and the whole class displays their boards.
- Exit tickets - Quickly identify and analyse students' conceptual understanding.
- Peer feedback - Students use clear assessment criteria or a simple framework to review peers' work.
- Rubrics - Use criteria to communicate and evaluate students' quality of learning.
- Learning intentions and success criteria - Explicit learning objectives and goals for student achievement.
- Designing test items - Students design questions with correct answers about what they have been learning.
- ABCD cards - Students answer multiple choice questions by choosing the A, B, C or D card.
- Quiz programs - Students attempt questions that test knowledge about a topic.
- Polya questioning - Questioning method incorporating a four-step problem-solving technique.
- What did we learn today? - Students are supported to reflect on learning goals using prompts.
- What's the question? - Students formulate questions based on key terms and content.