Easily identify your students' readiness for Level 1
writing literacy
LISA's rubric aligns with national writing rubrics such as AsTTle, PaCT, PAT, and the CAA to accurately assess students' writing.
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check your students' readiness for the L1 CAA or other MOE requirements
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assess the writing of incoming students for the next school year
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assess the writing level of international students before they fly out
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track your students' writing progress over time
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create quick tests to inform classroom teaching
Features
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CONCISE RUBRIC
Provide every teacher with a precise rubric of how to teach and assess students' writing in their subject.
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SELF MARKING
Save your teachers time by getting LISA to grade students' writing, INSTANTLY, so they focus more on teaching.
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SIMPLE PLATFORM
LISA has an easy-to-use testing platform that steps students through their questions - getting them to plan and check their writing.
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STUDENT DATA
Provide clear, detailed data to your school leaders and teachers. LISA provides IMMEDIATE student feedback to inform lesson preparation and students' readiness for formal testing.
A simple, easy-to-use testing platform for students
LISA has an easy-to-use testing platform that steps students through their writing.
LISA gets students to plan their ideas before writing, and to check before submitting their answers.
Spell-check and autocorrect are turned off so students do their own original writing.
CONCISE RUBRIC
LISA works across international curricula* to clearly define the mechanics of writing. It identifies 4 conventions that make it easier for students to learn and teachers to support them.
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IDEAS
Students write to share ideas and detailed information about them. Effective writing has central and supporting ideas, along with details such as statistics, dialogue, or stories that elaborate those ideas.
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VARIETY
Students use a variety of words, sentence types, language features, and the correct level of formality (register) to add impact and effect to their writing.
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ORGANISATION
Students organise their writing to help the reader understand them. This organisation must be appropriate to the purpose of their writing, e.g. to persuade readers to agree with something or take a specific action.
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ACCURACY
Students spell correctly, and use punctuation and grammar (syntax) accurately to help others understand their writing.
*LISA aligns with the New Zealand Curriculum and writing frameworks such as AsTTLe, PaCT, PAT and the Level 1 CAA. It has also been designed to align with international writing frameworks such as the CCSS in USA and the new Australian Curriculum.
Teachers stay in the driver's seat
LISA is designed for teachers to stay in charge of students' learning and assessment.
LISA concise framework ensures grading and feedback is accurate, consistent and transparent.
Teachers can moderate student's grades at any time, quickly and easily online.
Create tests quickly and easily by year level, class or for individual students.
Get detailed feedback about a class or individual students
View students' results within seconds of them completing the test.
Analyse results by overall grade, individual questions, conventions, and even by sub-conventions.
LISA provides a detailed distribution of students grades (overall, question, convention) as soon as the test is finished.
Teach students about writing for a purpose and audience
LISA develops students' ability to identify and write appropriately for their purpose and audience.
It grades students based on their ability to adapt their writing to one of three common purposes:
Explanatory
Students write to inform others - to share information or explain processes.
Persuasive
Students write to persuade others to do something or to get them agree with the writer.
Narrative
Students write to tell a real or imagined story in the past, present or future.