 Hi, I'm Rob Randall, Chief Executive Officer of ACARA. Welcome to our October Vodcast. The National Sample Assessment Program in Civics and Citizenship is taking place in schools across Australia during October and November. Civics refers to the study of our system of democratic government here in Australia, including our judicial system. Citizenship relates to our rights and responsibilities, duties and privileges as Australian citizens and our identity and culture. The Sample Assessment Program in Civics and Citizenship commenced in 2004 and has been held every three years since then in 2007, 2010 and now again in 2013. This involves a random selection of year 6 and year 10 students from across the country. Not all schools or all students are involved, just a representative sample of schools and students from each state and territory, about 13,000 students from 680 schools. If your child is participating in the Sample Assessment Program, your school will have informed you and provided you with an information brochure. The selection of students is random and is designed to give us a national indication of students' civics and citizenship knowledge and understanding. This year, the Sample Assessment Program is being conducted online. This is a first. We expect that conducting the test online will improve the testing experience for students and will improve student engagement. To this end, we've been working closely with principals and teachers at a sample of schools to test the concept of online assessment. We've put a lot of work into doing technical readiness checking and we have confidence in the system. Having said that, like all technology solutions, it is possible that there will be some technical issues. So we have appropriate backup plans in place. For example, if it looks like there's a problem with local internet connections, we'll provide the school with a USB drive that contains a preloaded test to minimize any disruption. The conduct of this year's Sample Assessment Program is a significant step towards conducting NAP plan online. Conducting the tests online will enable the collection and marking of student responses to be done more quickly and efficiently. This in turn will contribute to a reduction in the time it takes to publish the results. The goal of our civics and citizenship assessment is to assess students' level of knowledge and understanding in this area of the curriculum. So we can see how students from across Australia are performing. With this information, we can identify where we are doing well and where we can improve to help deliver our goal that all students are active and informed citizens. I would like to thank all the schools and students who are participating in the civics and citizenship sample assessment program over the next few months. Thank you.