Overview: The QuickSmart Numeracy Diagnostic Assessment (DA) is an online tool that helps schools quickly identify which students require extra support with their basic math skills. It is accessed through the QuickSmart Portal and is designed to assess large groups of students efficiently and affordably.
Traditional assessments often focus on whether students can get the right answer to curriculum-based questions. However, that does not tell educators if the students are missing the fundamental building blocks they need to tackle more complex math problems successfully.
The key is “automaticity”; the ability to recall basic math facts instantly, without having to stop and think. The Diagnostic Assessment identifies which students have already developed this automatic recall and which ones have not. The DA pinpoints these gaps, showing educators which students need support to develop that automatic recall before they can successfully tackle more complex mathematical thinking.
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
Instructors access online and downloadable reports for classes and/or individual students, displaying either assessment snapshots or progress across multiple rounds:
- Learner Reports display individual charts available to both instructors and learners.
- Class Reports show charts for all learners, displaying individual results, averaged results, and results by assessment level (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division).
- Download Reports provide access to dwonloadable 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.
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 and instruction videos 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 2025, they will expire on 31st December 2025. However, if they are purchased in or after August, they will not expire until the following December. For example: if a batch of licences is purchased in October 2025, they will expire on 31st December 2026.