ESSA is employing surveys to broaden the range of information collected within the ESSA program.
At each step in the testing process, students have been surveyed about their values and attitudes to science and to the test. Results from the ESSA 2007 and ESSA 2006 test survey are available through SMART. Results of other surveys are available to teachers in NSW DET schools, using a password, on the ESSA webpages of the DET intranet.
Teachers have been surveyed about their responses to the ESSA test, to workshops and to involvement in marking processes.
Participate in the teacher survey about the 2009 test
Download the teacher survey results for ESSA 2008 (22kb pdf); 2008 Online Practical Component (OPC) (49kb pdf), ESSA 2007 (24kb pdf) and ESSA 2006 (12kb pdf).