WESTERN AUSTRALIAN LITERACY AND NUMERACY ASSESSMENT

ABOUT WALNA
  Welcome to WALNA
   Goal
   History
  Who does WALNA
  Timelines

THE TESTS
   The Standards
   Test Development
   Test Content
   Marking
   Marking Guides
   Data Analysis

THE RESULTS
   General
   Individual
   Class
   School
   Digital Version

KEY FINDINGS
   Reports
   District Results
   Public Schools Results
   All Schools Results

INFORMATION
   Parent Choice
   Reporting
   Info. Brochures
   Administration
   Home Schooling

DATA CLUB
   Data Club
   

Assessment materials for the WALNA program are developed to reflect good classroom practice and provide the opportunity for students of all levels to perform to the maximum of their abilities.

Extensive consultation with classroom teachers has been a feature of the development of the assessment materials. The WALNA tests have been written to cater for the diverse range of students in Western Australian schools, and to ensure that there is no systematic bias associated with such factors as gender, culture or geographic location.

The test materials provide three levels of information in reading, writing, spelling and numeracy. They provide -

1. information on whether or not the student has reached the minimum expected standard in each of these areas.

2. information about the student's progression through the levels of achievement typically associated with the years of primary schooling.

3. information about the student's performance in relation to the rest of the Year 3, Year 5 or Year 7 population tested in Western Australia.

The Australian Council for Educational Research has developed the numeracy, reading and spelling assessment tasks for the Department of Education, in close conjunction with the Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, and the Association of Independent Schools of Western Australia. The Department of Education has developed the writing tests.