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Introducing PAT Early Literacy: a new assessment for foundational skills
Monday, 17 August, 4pm (AEST)
Explore the newly released PAT Early Literacy assessment and learn how it supports educators in understanding and strengthening students’ foundational literacy skills. This session will walk you through the purpose, design, and key features of the assessment, highlighting how it can be used to identify early learning needs and guide targeted instruction.
You’ll gain insight into:
- the structure and intent of the PAT Early Literacy assessment,
- how the assessment supports early identification of literacy strengths and challenges,
- ways to interpret results to inform teaching and intervention, and
- resources available to help schools implement the assessment effectively.
This webinar is ideal for educators working with early years learners who want to identify and build strong literacy skills from the very beginning.
Generating and interpreting ACER’s PAT Bands, Group, Individual and Longitudinal reports
Wednesday, 26 August, 4pm (AEST)
This session provides a practical walkthrough of the PAT Bands, Group, Individual, and Longitudinal reports used to analyse results from ACER’s linear assessments. We’ll explore reporting across PAT Reading 5th Edition, and the PAT Early Years assessments, showing how each report type can support deeper insight into student learning.
*PAT Maths 5th Edition reports are now generated using the ACER Data Explorer, and that demonstration will take place in our next webinar.
You’ll learn how to:
- identify strengths, weaknesses, and gaps at the class, cohort, and whole school level,
- recognise emerging trends across diverse groups of learners, and
- use report insights to inform teaching decisions and support targeted intervention.
The session is designed to help educators turn PAT data into meaningful, actionable information that strengthens learning outcomes.
Generating and interpreting PAT reports using the ACER Data Explorer
Wednesday, 2 September, 4pm (AEST)
This session provides an in‑depth look at the ACER Data Explorer, with a focus on the Achievement, Student, Item Performance, and Progress reports. We’ll explore how these reports work for PAT Maths Adaptive, PAT Reading Adaptive and PAT Maths 5th Edition assessments, and how they can be used to build a deeper understanding of student achievement and growth.
You’ll learn how to use key features—including predicted gain and norm comparisons—to observe learning progress over time. The session will also demonstrate how to identify strengths, weaknesses, and gaps at the class, cohort, and whole‑school level, and how to recognise emerging trends across diverse groups of learners.