The 2000 technology assessments included two assessment tasks classified as relating to technology and society.

Timber Factory

One task was administered only to year 8 students, while the other was identical for year 4 and year 8 students. The former is a released task (fully described with data for 2000 only), and the latter is a link task (to be used again in 2004, so only partially described here).

Comparing results for year 4 and year 8 students
Averaged across 12 components of the task administered to both year 4 and year 8 students, 15 percent more year 8 than year 4 students produced correct or strong responses. This indicates that students have made useful progress between year 4 and year 8 on the skills and understandings assessed by this task.