Reach was created in 2019 to be our main assessment for providing detailed data on student performance. Our test development team used our past experience with the paper version of ICAS to create sets of tests with known difficulty. For …
It was many years ago and on the other side of the world. I was a maths teacher then in South London and a student was looking at a sample test paper for the national mathematics tests. “But where do …
In the world of assessment, tests are often called “instruments”. It is a bit of a pretentious term but expresses the idea that there is a purpose to every test. Each test is an instrument intended to gather information about …
Online testing has been playing an increasing role in Australian schools over the past few years. In that time schools have been learning practical lessons, tips and pitfalls from running online assessments with their students. However, schools have many decades …
One of the exciting changes in my work over the past few years has been the wide range of new question types that are available in online tests. There are so many more ways for students to interact with assessments …