Contact
Maureen Lorimer (08) 9273 6397 [Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday]
Maureen.Lorimer@scsa.wa.edu.au

The ABLES assessment tool is included in the Abilities Based Learning Education, Western Australia (ABLEWA) resources for teachers to support their work with students with disability and additional needs who are unable to access the Pre‑primary to Year 10 curriculum. The ABLES assessment tool is available to all Western Australian schools at https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/resources/ablewa/getting-started-with-ablewa.

The assessment tool is made up of nine assessments that are completed online by a teacher. Together, the assessments give a comprehensive picture of a student’s strengths and abilities and capture important indicators of student proficiency and understanding, providing explicit guidance material and resources that will support teachers to effectively plan and teach students based on their individual learning needs. The assessments have been designed to describe skills and abilities that teachers can observe in everyday school and classroom contexts and interactions with students.

Administrators are advised that minor updates have been made to the recommended protocols when using the ABLES assessment tool. The updates are indicated in bold below.

• Keep a record of the password used for the generic school email username, for ongoing access by users, e.g. a school leader leaves the school.
• When creating a teacher listing, use their education email address as the username,
  e.g. @education, @cewa, @ais.
• When creating classes, use year groups rather than room numbers or names, e.g. Year 1, Year 2.
• Do not add sub-groups to the year levels.
• When adding a student, include their legal given name and surname and their Western Australian student number (WASN).
  (Note: generally, the WASN will match the year group, e.g. in 2025 the WASN for Kindergarten is 44, Pre-primary is 43, Year 1 is 42 etc.)
• Do not add the calendar year to the naming protocol as this will result in a large number of classes over time, plus the possible duplication of student names.

Further information is available in Circular 2, published in February 2025 at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/kto6-circulars/edition-2-february-2025, regarding the manual update of classes. Additionally, if only a small number of students are registered in the assessment tool for your school, you may choose to move each individual student up to the next year level.

Contact ablewa@scsa.wa.edu.au if you have any questions regarding this process.

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