Overview: The Numeracy Diagnostic Assessment (DA) is an online assessment accessed through the QuickSmart Portal. It is cost-effective and efficient tool for assessing the basic numeracy skills of large numbers of students.
A focus on the assessment of syllabus outcomes does not identify the missing, underlying numeracy skills required for success with higher-level mathematical tasks and the attainment of syllabus outcomes. Mastery of the underlying skills involves not merely being able to calculate an answer correctly but includes automaticity, the capacity to recall correct answers automatically, effortlessly and unavoidably. Automaticity with the underlying basic numeracy skills improves access to working memory resources necessary to engage successfully in higher-cognitive tasks.
QuickSmart Numeracy Diagnostic Assessment Description
The QuickSmart Numeracy Diagnostic Assessment:
- Assesses student automaticity with basic number facts
- Records average Response Time and Accuracy for 30 randomly generated combinations (0-12) across fundamental arithmetic operations
- Allows up to five assessment rounds per school year
- Identifies intervention needs among large student numbers in the first round
- Establishes baseline measurements for tracking improvement over time
- Measures progressive improvements in basic numeracy skills throughout the year
- Enables schools to group students into multiple ‘classes’ based on different needs or instructional approaches
Online and Downloadable Reports: Instructors access online and downloadable reports for classes and/or individual students, displaying either assessment snapshots or progress across multiple rounds.
- “Download Reports” provide complete documents (e.g., Excel spreadsheets for the Institution/Class/Learner) with detailed results including accuracy, response time, and errors for every question in each assessment.
- “Class Reports” show charts for all learners, displaying individual results, averaged results, and results by assessment level (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division).
- “Learner Reports” display individual charts available to both instructors and learners.
Numeracy Diagnostic Assessment Program Costs
The QuickSmart Numeracy Diagnostic Assessment is available for purchase by ALL schools in Australia. There are no professional development sessions associated with the Diagnostic Assessment, however user guides are available after a school has registered.
- 30 DA Licences – $75 (plus GST)
- 100 DA Licences – $225 (plus GST)
- 200 DA Licences – $400 (plus GST)
- 400 DA Licences – $800 (plus GST)
- 600 DA Licences – $1200 (plus GST)
- 800 DA Licences – $1600 (plus GST)
Licences can be purchased through the form on this page.
Schools can also avail of a one-time offer of 5 free non-binding trial licences for the Diagnostic Assessment via this page.
*Licences are no longer usable at the end of the current school year. For example: if a batch of licences is purchased in March 2024, they will expire on 31st December 2024. However, if they are purchased after September, they will not expire until the following December. For example: if a batch of licences is purchased in October 2024, they will expire on 31st December 2025.