Assess your students’ writing abilities
Get an accurate understanding of your students’ writing skills with our curriculum-aligned writing assessments.
Our test programs that include writing
We offer writing assessments as part of three broader testing programs, designed with different purposes in mind:
Get precise year-on-year growth data for students’ writing skills, for individuals, classes, and cohorts.
Find students with first-rate writing abilities who may be good candidates for scholarships.
Discover students with great writing skills who may find value in extension or enrichment.
Test your Year 2 to 11 students on curriculum-aligned writing skills
We align our writing assessments to the Australian curriculum, giving you a crucial measure of their growth and performance. This can be directly compared to NAPLAN, providing unbroken year-on-year results data.
Our writing tests include the following learning areas:
Genre and structure
Arguments
Vocabulary
Sentence structure and cohesion
Syntax and tense
Spelling
Key writing test reports that help improve your teaching programs
How students’ writing skills are growing
View year-on-year comparisons for students’ writing skills, to identify interventions.
Year-on-year performance compared
See how year levels performed against the school’s cohorts, the state, and the rest of the country.
Group performance by learning area
Get detailed class, cohort, or year level performance for each learning area for writing.
Individual performance by learning area
Get individual student performance for each learning area for writing.
Writing diagnostic tests to discover learning gaps
All of our assessments may be used as writing diagnostic tests, allowing your teachers to discover learning gaps for students and adjusting their teaching to suit.
Writing achievement tests to measure students’ current levels
The writing component of our testing programs may also be used as writing achievement tests, showing students’ skill levels and helping your teachers plan their term.
How our online assessments look
Our writing tests take between 25 to 30 minutes to complete.
They can be taken online (through the same testing platform as NAPLAN) or paper-based, depending on your preference.
Writing assessments designed and run by education experts
Our rigorous writing tests are created by Australian educators with decades of experience.
Our team also handles the full assessment process for you – setting up and delivering the exams, marking them, and providing support with understanding the results.
All subjects and skills we assess
Test students’ core writing skills, including their vocabulary, punctuation, structure and more.
Assess students’ ability to read bodies of text, which they’ll analyse, evaluate and use other important reading skills.
Gauge students’ spelling skills with words that vary widely in difficulty, based on year level.
Frequently asked questions
Our writing assessments / testing programs vary in price depending on how many tests you need, and their accompanying services.
Please contact us to discuss your requirements.
We don’t sell single writing tests. Our writing tests are part of our broader testing programs include other skills like maths and reasoning.
These testing programs are:
- Scholarship testing – identifying high-performing students for your scholarship program.
- Progress and placement testing – tracking student growth and progress over time.
- Gifted student ability measure test – finding gifted students for your enrichment programs.
Despite this, if these testing programs don’t suit your school’s needs, we may be able to offer you something custom that works. Please get in touch and we’ll happily discuss your requirements.
Each writing test is about 25-30 minutes in length depending on year level. Students are expected to write between 200 to 250 words.
The tests are held across 2 sessions with a 20-minute recess break between each.
The writing assessments can be set on a date that suits your school’s needs.
We score the writing tests, validate the scoring, and produce the reports within 10 working days. Reports are electronic (on our reporting system) and can also be sent as a hard copy if required.
Our writing tests are strictly confidential and not able to be purchased separately. We also refresh the assessments annually, so students are highly unlikely to have sat our tests before.
Our writing (and other literacy-based) tests have been designed with the same scale as NAPLAN, which allows you to import NAPLAN data to see steady year-on-year progress for students.
Get an accurate picture of your students’ writing abilities today with AAS’ writing tests
Get in touch and we’ll discuss how our writing assessments can help you better understand your students’ writing skills.
