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24 May, 2022
Understanding and measuring development in learning
To help you understand your students' learning and growth, we have summarised assessment data collected within the Brightpath software and mapped these against our performance descriptors, creating year level based learning progressions for the most common scales. We provide suggestions on how you can use this data.
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03 May, 2022
Preparing for NAPLAN 2023
It may seem strange to be thinking of NAPLAN 2023 when NAPLAN 2022 is still to happen, but with the testing time being moved forward to March next year, teachers will only have five or six months to prepare their year 2, 4, 6 and 8 students for the tests. Learn how our Mathematics tests can support you with your preparation.
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23 Feb, 2022
We launched Brightpath in 2015 and it’s been upward ever since!
Brightpath has had a successful take-up since its launch in 2015 by meeting schools' needs of formative writing assessments and reporting. One of our school leaders explains what they love about the tool.
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16 Feb, 2022
How writing develops
We discuss the difficulties of teaching at a year level and teaching to students’ point of need, and we explain that the Brightpath Learning progressions for narrative and persuasive writing provide a way through for teachers.
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31 Jan, 2022
Federal grants for schools negatively impacted by lockdowns
Information on federal grants for schools negatively impacted by lockdowns. Applications close February 10, 2022.
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18 Jan, 2022
5 features of an effective data wall
This article provides a summary on effective data walls and explains how Brightpath can facilitate in creating these
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09 Aug, 2021
We are delighted to announce the launch of Brightpath’s Assisted Marking
We are focussing onto Brightpath's formative writing assessments and how the new marking assistant supports teachers in assessing students' works using Brightpath.
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14 Jun, 2021
Assessment Rubrics for Writing | NAPLAN Writing Rubric
This article provides a synopsis of our research examining the rubric in the WA Literacy and Numeracy Assessment (WALNA).
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03 Jun, 2021
The relationship between text types and paragraphing: insights from our research
This article provides a short summary on paragraphs and the use of paragraphing in narrative, persuasive and information report text types.
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24 May, 2021
Role of Assessment Moderation in Effective Teaching
Moderation is demanding and time consuming, yet it often leads to some of the most meaningful discussions about student learning that teachers have. This article highlights the work Brightpath is doing to support teachers with moderation of students’ extended writing performances.