Saturday, 9 October 2010

ESSA test at PHS

ESSA stands for:

Essential Secondary Science Assessment (ESSA)

and has been running for a number of years in NSW public schools. It tests the syllabus and by having a graded marking system looks at the depth of Science learning and quality teaching across the state.

In WEEK 1A term 4 all year 8 Students will have a practice test in computer labs.  They will watch a short flash video of an experiment and conduct scientific analysis. 

For this you will require:
1) a Ear Bud as used in Ipods to hear the audio from the computer.
2) pencil, rulers and calculators as they would use in a school laboratory.

You will have a USERNAME and Password.

In WEEK 2A Thursday 21 October Term 4 you will conduct the actual test.

As this is the first year the test is conducted wholely online, only a select number of schools across the state will participate in the pilot

kwESSA

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