Research Projects
WALNA 2006
Project Director: Dr Rhonda Farkota
The West Australian Literacy and Numeracy Assessment (WALNA) is a curriculum-based assessment that is criterion-referenced and tests students' knowledge and skills in numeracy, reading, spelling and writing. The WALNA test is administered annually to students in years 3, 5 and 7.
ACER’s responsibilities included:
- Providing close and on-going consultation with Western Australian Monitoring Standards in Education personnel on all aspects of test development, including reliability and validity issues for reading, spelling and numeracy;
- item development for reading, spelling and numeracy; and
- liaising with the scanning contractor to ensure editorial quality of machine readable booklets.
Expected Completion Date: July 2005-May 2006
Funding: Department of Education and Training Western Australia
Deliverables: Test items for trial