Opinion
NAPLAN pressure can cause students to ‘check out’ in tests
The era of treating NAPLAN as a trial of endurance should be over. When we lower the stakes, we raise the potential for performance
When a student’s heart starts racing at the sight of a NAPLAN booklet, their prefrontal cortex – the part of the brain responsible for complex problem solving and literacy – essentially checks out for the day.
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