Personalised Assessments

Overview

Personalised assessments provide feedback on learners’ reading and numeracy skills so that learners, their teachers and their parents and carers can understand where they are in their learning journey. The information from the assessments helps teachers to plan next steps and to support learners to make progress.

Personalised assessments in reading and numeracy are taken online by learners in years 2 to 9 in maintained schools in Wales and are statutory. They can be used alongside a range of assessment approaches to support the understanding and development of reading and numeracy skills which are mandatory within Curriculum for Wales.

Guidance

Personalised Assessments: Information for parents and carers

How to view feedback from the assessments

Familiarisation Assessments

Pupils in years 7, 8 and 9 will complete National Reading Tests during the School Term.

Familiarisation assessments are a way to help pupils familarise themselves with the types of questions used in the Personalised Assessments, as well as getting them used to the interactive environment. The use of this assessment is completely optional.

They can be accessed by in the ‘Familiarisation Assessment’ tab within the Personalised Assessments page after logging in to HWB.

For more information on accessing these assessments, please follow the step-by-step guide below.

To begin, you will need to log in to your/your child’s HWB account.

Head to https://hwb.gov.wales/ and press the Log in button and log in with your HWB Email and Password.

From the home page, click on the Personalised Assessments button.

After being redirected to the Personalised Assessments page, click on the ‘Familiarisation Assessment’ Tab.

On this page there are many assessments to choose from, as well as guidance on what will be included in the assessment.

Selecting a subject will take you to an interactive assessment that mimics the real thing. This helps you to become accustomed to the interactive elements and allows you to answer example questions akin to what you can expect from a school run Personalised Assessment.