Introducing the Pearson Stage 4 and 5 Skills and Assessment books for New South Wales.

Write-in Skills and Assessment Books with a focus on working scientifically skills and assessment are designed to equip students with the skills required to succeed. Each Skills and Assessment book comes with Lightbook Starter, Pearson's digital formative and summative assessment tool which provides further opportunity for students to apply their understanding of working scientifically skills whilst tracking their progress with the progress tracker.

Developed by highly experienced and expert author teams, the skills and assessment books include high quality, skills-focussed activities that provide opportunities for learners to apply their content knowledge. The activities are scaffolded to provide Stage-appropriate support to develop students’ confidence in applying Working scientifically skills and working independently.

Lightbook Starter

Lightbook Starter is an innovative digital resource developed to help students assess understanding and track progress. It assesses the readiness of the learner prior to tackling topics, as well as their understanding through post-topic assessment and auto-correcting questions linked to the progress tracker dashboard.

• Lightbook Starter contains sets of questions that are complementary to the activities within the Skills and Assessment Book.
• Hints and auto-correcting questions offer students instant feedback when they engage with this formative assessment platform.
• Before you begin questions provide insight into students’ level of understanding at the beginning of a topic.
• Review questions assess students’ understanding at the end of each topic.
• Questions are all tracked against curriculum learning outcomes, making progress monitoring simple.
• A handy icon indicates the best time to engage with Lightbook Starter.