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PAT administration and testing guidance
Wednesday 15 October | 4 pm AEDT
This webinar will focus on offering tips and tricks for testing time. We will look at how to assign tests for both linear and adaptive assessments, as well as how to manually override starting levels. We will discuss how to get login details for your students and how to set these up to be the most efficient for your school. We will also go through a live demonstration and show some hints that will help make your testing period as smooth as possible.
PAT interviews: school leadership – hear how other schools are using PAT
Wednesday 22 October | 4 pm AEDT
This webinar will feature interviews with selected school leaders about how they are using PAT in their schools and how PAT has impacted in their school. The leaders will share how they use PAT as part of their assessment cycle and how they maximise the data for teaching and learning purposes.
Predicting PAT learning growth
Wednesday 5 November | 4 pm AEDT
In this session we will look at distinct types of growth and how to identify these within the PAT reports. We will look at the ‘Predicted Gain’ tool as part of our Progress Report and outline how you can use this tool along with the other reports to predict learning growth for your students. We will also discuss and show different comparisons that can be made between your students and the norm data. You can observe student learning growth using the scale scores and achievement bands from multiple assessment periods within the same domain or learning area.
Leading improvement in student engagement
Thursday 13 November | 4 pm AEDT
Hear from authors Josh Ambrosy, Christopher Hudson, and Carla Kennedy about practical, high-impact strategies for improving student outcomes through cognitive, emotional, and behavioural engagement.
- Leading improving in student outcomes through cognitive engagement – Dr Josh Ambrosy
- Leading improving in student outcomes through behavioural engagement – Dr Christopher Hudson
- Leading improving in student outcomes through emotional engagement – Dr Carla Kennedy • Q&A
How to review your students' wellbeing using the Social-Emotional Wellbeing Survey
Thursday 20 November | 4 pm AEDT
In this webinar we will look at the Social-Wellbeing Survey and how to generate and interpret the reports. We will cover looking at whole school, cohort and year level data to get an understanding of student wellbeing across a range of different areas.
PAT Science and STEM Contexts: how and why schools use these assessments
Wednesday 26 November | 4 pm AEDT
In this webinar we will talk about both PAT Science and STEM Contexts and how different schools are using these assessments. We will look at the reports and how you can use these for not only teaching and learning of science and STEM but also how it can impact other areas of the curriculum.
PAIS Adaptive reports
Wednesday 26 November | 6 pm AEDT
Explanation of key concepts and introduction to the data explorer for Progressive Achievement for International Schools (PAIS):
- Purpose of the assessment
- Key concepts including: the Progressive Achievement approach, scales, scale scores, achievement bands
- A guided journey through the reports in the ACER Data Explorer, including comparisons and tracking growth
- Summary and questions.
Unpacking ACER's General Ability Test (AGAT)
Thursday 27 November | 4 pm AEDT
This webinar will look at how schools are using ACER's General Ability Test (AGAT). We will discuss the different administration we have seen as well as view the reports available in a live demonstration.
PAIS Fixed-level reports
Wednesday 3 December | 6 pm AEDT
Explanation of key concepts and data in International Schools’ Assessment (ISA) reports:
- Purpose of the assessment
- Key concepts including: the Progressive Achievement approach, scales, scale scores, achievement bands A guided journey through the reports and data at the student, class, and school level
- Explanation of international comparisons
- Summary and questions.