Uncover student thinking with a Foundation to Year 8 maths assessment system
Expect more from your assessments with mCLASS® Math, a complete F–8 benchmark and progress monitoring assessment system that shows how students performed, reveals their maths thinking, and provides teachers with recommendations to drive year-level success.
About the program
mCLASS Math is a digital assessment system designed to evaluate student performance and growth against year-level expectations throughout the year. The program empowers educators and students with:
- Valid, reliable, and research-based assessments that take less time, so you can measure student proficiency and growth without taking time away from instruction.
- Valuable insights into student maths thinking that move beyond right or wrong answers, revealing students’ processes so you can accelerate year-level learning by building on what they already know.
- Data that drives instruction, turning assessment results into clear next steps for differentiation and intervention—all aligned with your core maths program and MTSS framework.
Access deeper insights into students’ understanding
Traditional assessments focus only on right or wrong answers. mCLASS Math goes deeper, revealing how students think about year-level maths and what they already understand.
This asset-based approach recognises that every student has their own ways of thinking. Their individual strengths, experiences, understandings, and strategies—or assets, as we collectively refer to them—inform the robust data that powers mCLASS Math. By focusing on what students already know and where they need support, teachers can build on each target area for growth and accelerate year-level learning with confidence.
Traditional assessments |
mCLASS Math’s asset-based assessments |
| Focus on student deficits | Highlight what students already know and how they think to build on their strengths |
| Require lengthy assessments with separate questions to address each skill | Efficiently gather multiple data points per item, reducing assessment time |
| Judge answers solely as correct or incorrect | Reveal students’ thinking and understanding behind their answers |
| Provide data disconnected from core instruction and intervention | Deliver data-driven recommendations aligned with core instruction and tiered intervention |
mCLASS Benchmark Assessments
- Digitally administered to the whole class three times a year to measure growth against year-level expectations
- Provide real-time visibility into student work and responses
- Diagnostic and screening tools to identify strengths and areas for Tier 2 and Tier 3 learning support
- Flag potential risk of dyscalculia for early support
mCLASS Progress Monitoring
- Quick, targeted assessments administered between benchmarks
- Track student performance in specific skills and concepts over time
- Inform instructional adjustments with in-the-moment recommendations
- Ensure learning support and interventions are effective to keep students on track
Instructional supports for Tiers 1–3
Support, Strengthen, and Stretch model: Flexible framework for effective differentiation and learning support
- Mini-Lessons: 15-minute teacher-led interventions to build year-level proficiency in small groups
- Maths Centres: collaborative, hands-on activities for concept reinforcement (Years F–5)
- Fluency Practice: adaptive digital practice to build number sense and procedural fluency
- Item Bank: customisable practice and assessments filtered by standards and skills
- Extensions: student-choice activities to challenge and extend learning
A research-backed approach
mCLASS Math assessments provide valid, reliable measures of student proficiency and thinking, offering clear insight into growth and performance against year-level expectations.
Developed by a team of researchers, mCLASS Math has undergone rigorous psychometric validity studies and is backed by the latest iteration of curriculum-based measurement tools and a state-of-the-art approach for efficiently assessing students’ mathematical thinking.
Additionally, Foundation to Year 5 progress monitoring and Years 6 to 8 benchmark assessments are part of ongoing, large-scale field trials, reflecting our commitment to continuous improvement and evidence-based design. Learn more.
Data that informs instruction
mCLASS Math transforms each student’s assessment results into clear, actionable next steps, empowering teachers to provide timely scaffolds and targeted instruction where they’re needed most. Integrated insights align with your core maths program and MTSS framework, making it easy to differentiate and support every learner with confidence.
Maximize assessment impact with mCLASS PL.
Amplify offers focused professional learning to help educators leverage mCLASS Math data effectively. Gain strategies to enhance instruction, drive student success, and fully utilise assessment insights.
One integrated maths solution
Amplify’s comprehensive maths suite, Amplify Desmos Math, provides seamless alignment to help teachers capitalise on strengths, foster deep investment, and build agency for all students.
Everything is in one place—with screening and progress monitoring, core instruction, integrated targeted learning, and embedded tiered intervention teachers can trust.