National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement: English 2019 Writing for an Audience - Insights for Teachers 4

This report is designed to support the teaching of English in primary and intermediate classrooms. It draws on insights generated from the assessment of the English learning area by the National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA) in 2019. The report focuses on writing for different purposes within the creating meaning strand of the English learning area.

This is the final report in a series of four, based on the English assessment findings and is organised into two parts.

Part 1 briefly introduces NMSSA and the NMSSA assessment of English.
Part 2 describes NMSSA assessment of writing, and insights about why students need support to consider the needs of their audience.