Impactful, High-Quality Standardised Assessments for Schools and Schooling Systems
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Impact Assessment gives schools everything they need to benchmark their students’ progress and address gaps in learning. Impact Assessment offers high-quality, curriculum-aligned and data-driven assessments and analysis. Powered by Smartgrade UK’s quality edtech platform, we give educators the tools they need to transform assessment into a practical evidence-based teaching and learning tool to help all students progress.
The Benefits
Assessments are designed by experts to accurately measure students’ progress through the curriculum, and give teachers detailed meaningful information to adjust instruction. We ensure that we are testing the right thing in a consistent and reliable way.
Standardised assessments give teachers, leaders and students a clear understanding of performance in context and make it easy to spot patterns in performance. Schools can access Ochre Education curriculum-aligned assessments, and standardise their own custom assessments.
Impact Assessment includes detailed reports from our end of unit, mid-year and end of year assessments. We offer standardised, cohort-benchmarked reporting broken down into topic and question level analysis.
Our assessment reports directly link to Ochre materials and include easy signposting about next steps in teaching and learning. We move beyond measuring performance to actively support progress so that assessment becomes a practical teaching and learning tool.
Students can take the assessments online or offline, with easy and speedy data entry through markbooks and automated marking for some tasks.
Impact Assessment is powered by Smartgrade – a platform used by 1,100+ schools and 400,000+ students in the UK. It works on any browser, with easy data sync. We take data protection very seriously; all data is held in Australia.
Groups of schools can easily set up assessments across schools and analyse results across schools, topics and grade levels.
Our low-cost, transparent pricing is part of our mission to give all schools access to curriculum-aligned standardised assessments.
How it works
There are two main ways that schools will use Impact Assessment:
Use ready-made Ochre assessments
Or standardise your own assessments
Ochre curriculum-aligned assessments
Two types of Ochre curriculum-aligned assessments will be available in English, Maths, Science and Humanities, aligned to the Australian Curriculum, the Victorian Curriculum and the NSW Syllabus.
End of Unit Assessments
- Written by Ochre’s curriculum and assessment team
- Assessments are closely aligned with the individual units. Assessments are available for every unit currently in the Ochre suite
- Assessments cover a variety of formats and question types, assessing both content knowledge and subject-specific skills
- Teacher guidance notes show how assessment items relate to achievement standards
Semester Assessments
- Written by Ochre’s curriculum and assessment team
- High validity and designed to ensure students are able to show what they know and can do
- Designed to help you understand your students' strengths, gaps and performance
- Include a variety of questions intended to assess students’ knowledge and their ability to use it in the ways set out in the Curriculum
- Will usually include multiple choice, short answer, and extended response questions
- Assessments available twice a year: mid-Term 2 and mid-Term 4
- New, unseen papers will be provided each year
- Each paper designed to last one hour or less, suitable for normal lesson time
- Students may be asked to integrate knowledge from different Curriculum sections to show holistic understanding
Ochre assessments will be available in a combination of online, offline and hybrid forms. Online assessment data is automatically entered and offline data can be entered quickly with easy to use markbooks.
How to use Impact Assessment
Traditional offline assessments
Online assessments with auto-marking
Either mark quickly with speedy data entry
Or use our auto-marking online assessment tools
- Percentile ranks, standardised scores and performance indicators.
- Benchmark your performance against other schools.
- Spot gaps at question or topic level to see where you can improve.
Analyse results at question, topic, and overall grade level
Links To Relevant Units of Work
Links To Resources That Target Specific Skills
Use for Groups of Schools
The Impact Assessment platform has been specially designed with the needs of groups of schools in mind. Through the platform, groups of schools can capture assessment data across multiple schools and subjects, as well as compare to national cohorts. If you are interested in learning more about how Impact Assessment might support your group of schools, please get in touch.
Impact Assessment Technology and Privacy
The Impact Assessment platform is powered by scalable, secure technology built to support thousands of schools. It is powered by Smartgrade - a proven edtech, with over 1,100+ schools using the Smartgrade UK platform. The platform works on any browser (PC, Mac, IPad etc). It includes MIS / SMS data sync via Wonde. Google and Microsoft SSO is available to allow for secure access with 2FA. Our API allows for integration with other systems, such as your data warehouse. Data is also easily exportable using a CSV file. We take data protection very seriously. All data is held in Australia. Our privacy policies are transparent and easy to understand.
Pricing
Impact Assessment is a high-quality, low-cost tool designed to support equitable access for all schools. Our pricing is simple, transparent and equitable, making it easy for schools to understand and plan with confidence.
Individual school
Pricing based on school size for an initial one-year commitment. Subsidies may be available.
From $3,500 (+ GST) per school for one-year access for all teachers within your school. No limits on the assessments that all students can be offered.
Includes:
- Access for all school staff
- Access for all students across all assessments
- Access to all Ochre curriculum-aligned assessments
- National benchmarks
- Downloadable student reports
- Onboarding and ongoing support including regular webinars
Group of schools
Pricing based on number of schools and school size. Custom pricing with multi school and multi-year discounts.
Includes:
- Access for all system staff
- Access for all school staff
- Access for all students across all assessments
- Access to all Ochre curriculum-aligned assessments
- National benchmarks + analyse results across all schools
- Downloadable student reports
- Onboarding and ongoing support including regular webinars
About Us/Our Mission
Impact Assessment is on a mission to help schools improve their assessments. It strengthens the alignment between curriculum and assessment, helping teachers better understand what students have understood and retained. It helps teachers fully utilise their professional ‘adaptive expertise’ to gather evidence about student learning and use this evidence to guide next steps.
Impact Assessment is wholly owned by Australian not-for-profit Ochre Education. Revenue from Impact Assessment supports Ochre Education in its mission to provide free, high-quality curriculum resources to all Australian teachers, alongside support for educators implementing the Ochre curriculum across diverse classrooms and school communities. The Impact Assessment platform is a high-quality, low-cost tool designed to support equitable access for all schools.
“As a sector, we must prioritise discussion about effective assessment in education. We are delighted to partner with Impact Assessment and make Ochre assessments available through the platform. We know that Impact Assessment will help schools to celebrate successes and target support where it’s needed, at a curriculum level.”
Caroline Reed and Reid Smith Co-CEOs Ochre Education
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