Accurate. Consistent. Reliable.
We are incredibly proud of the rigour and precision of our assessment content.

Our content writers care
All Essential Assessment content is written in-house by our talented team of highly skilled Numeracy and Literacy assessment specialists. We have seven writers across Numeracy and Literacy with decades of Australian teaching experience. Our writers work on both new projects—writing brand new questions and content—and regular updates and refreshments to existing content. We develop specialised assessment types—Strand-based assessments, Topic-based assessments, Flexi assessments, and Formative assessment tools—across the state and national curriculums (NSW Syllabus, Australian Curriculum and Victorian Curriculum).
Our approach to writing your assessments
We have developed a unique approach to assessment writing that ensures precise curriculum alignment and assessment validity. This approach is a key factor in the effectiveness of our assessment tools.
Our writing process begins with curriculum analysis. Every curriculum code is thoroughly interpreted and then deconstructed so that the most important aspects can be isolated and measured via assessment content. These micro-skills and concepts are built into sets of equivalent questions that, in combination, measure the totality and full intention of a curriculum code. Meticulous care is taken to ensure parity occurs across pre-, mid, and post-assessments.
Balancing accurate pitch and alignment between assessments ensures our assessment data is both valid and reliable.
Student engagement is a top priority in our writing process. Our writers strategically use various question types, appealing subject matter, and authentic contexts to ensure high student interest and engagement.
Our in-house publishing team works closely alongside our writers to ensure all visual elements—illustrations, diagrams, graphs, tables and image scaffolds—effectively support the questions written. Our visual elements are developed in-house, and most are explicitly created for Essential Assessment content.
Rigorous peer review and quality checks are built into our entire content-authoring cycle. Content is carefully reviewed and examined before, during and after production. It meets the highest quality standards before becoming available for our outstanding students, teachers and schools to use Australia-wide.
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