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Assessment Resource Bank (ARB) – Writing
Assessment Area English-Writing
Year level 3-10
NZ origin? Yes
Standardised? No , but trialled with approximately 200 New Zealand students to establish difficulty levels and reliability.
Administration to individual or group? Either
What does it assess? Activities assess the creating of meaning through text. They include some NEMP tasks. Activities are most useful in supporting learning at an identified level, and can be used to diagnose individual problems.
Purpose The majority of resources are designed specifically for formative purposes. Some include self and peer assessment.
Validity Items are reviewed to ensure content validity.
Reliability Items are tested for reliability.
What measures does it give? The main emphasis is on establishing what the next learning step might be, but students and teachers can also compare achievement against the established difficulty levels.
How long does it take to administer? There is a variety of independent, stand-alone assessment tasks, some taking only minutes and others comprising an entire lesson or series of lessons.
How much training is needed? No training is needed, but a commitment to formative assessment is important. Comprehensive administration guides are given in the teacher notes attached to each resource.
Scoring and data analysis Teachers can generate marking schedules or self assessment schedules for students according to the particular learning intention(s) of the task. Teacher notes attached to each resource provide scoring guides, analysis of student responses, teaching and learning information and guides to the likelihood of learning challenges for students.
Does it provide 'what next' strategies? Yes , there is an emphasis on the formative use of recent items in the Resource Bank. 'Next steps' in the teacher information pages have links to teacher support materials that promote professional learning.
Is it available in te reo Maori? No
Cost? There is no cost. The resources are available on the NZCER website; registration is necessary.
Author, date of publication and publisher Published by NZCER for the Ministry of Education. The new ARB website (2015) offers many of the older resources along with a range of new online, interactive resources.
Availability

Available on the NZCER website. Registration is required.

Further Information

The Assessment Resource Banks (ARBs) contain over 2500 assessment resources in English, mathematics, and science for students working at levels 2–5 of the New Zealand curriculum.

The  new site offers three resource types: Auto-marking, pencil and paper, and online interactive. The resource type is identified by an icon next to the title.

The "Teacher View" of each resource provides an overview, instructions for use, connections to the curriculum, advice on working with students, and links to related resources. Teachers can print pencil and paper resources, or save all types of resources to personal folders stored online, and remove them if required.

The "Student View" provides the same resource in the form of a student-friendly display.