Essential Assessment

Yesterday SHU welcomed Jacinta Browning from Essential Assessment to work with our teachers and students.

Essential Assessment is an online assessment platform that allows teachers to pre-assess students within each strand or sub-strand of the Australian Curriculum Mathematics. Student results are automatically compiled, advising the teacher of each student’s current achievement level and analysis of the achievement standards that have been understood and misunderstood for each student, group and class.

The curriculum is differentiated within each sub-strand based on each assessment result and a tailored paper-based and online curriculum (My Numeracy) is created for each student, group or class. My Numeracy is a differentiated and personalised formative assessment model with an interactive teaching and learning function that enables students to progress through each content description and the four proficiency strands of the curriculum.

Post-assessment identifies each student’s new Australian Curriculum achievement level demonstrating the growth achieved by each student. Continued analysis of class and cohort data within each strand and sub-strand is provided along with guidance on the developed and potential Numeracy progressions within each sub-element. Each assessment, curriculum activity and curriculum resource has been carefully aligned to the Australian Curriculum with emphasis on student growth through achievement.

Jacinta met with Leadership teams from neighbouring Catholic schools in the morning to facilitate collaboration and sharing of best practices. Jacinta then modelled lessons in our classrooms to enable our teachers to observe the platform and teacher practice.