Assessing students with disabilities
Abilities Based Learning and Education Support (ABLES) is an online system that allows teachers to assess students’ capabilities. These assessments create reports that link to the curriculum, provide teaching strategies, and can show historical data to map students’ progress over time.
Additional details
| Year band(s) | Foundation, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 |
|---|---|
| Content type | Assessment advice |
| Format | Web page |
| Integrated, cross-curriculum, special needs | Inclusive education |
| Organisation | ESA |
| Copyright | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated. |
Related resources
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Work Samples
This site provides access to annotated work samples in accordance with the Australian curriculum for years F-10.
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Checklist example
This checklist template example is focused on a task where students collect, explore and sort data about themselves and their classmates using a range of themes.
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Think aloud example
This assessment resource is a Think-Aloud, in which the teacher interviews the student about their design (including documents) and their implementation of a program.
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Rubric example
This rubric can focus on students’ knowledge and skills related to webpages and use of CSS.
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Self-assessment template
This template can be used for Digital Technologies related tasks that enable students to self-assess.
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Self-assessment example
This example of a self-assessment uses a rubric to assess learning about creating a digital game.
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WS02 - Clean our school
Use this ACARA worksample to assess how Years 3-4 students process and represent data for different purposes as they use digital tools to create and share content.
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WS01 - Digital project: Rescuing Rapunzel
Use this ACARA worksample to assess how Years 3-4 students create simple digital solutions and use provided design criteria to check if solutions meet user needs.