A student teacher test that ensures teachers are in the top 30 per cent in the country in literacy and numeracy skills has increased its number of allowed attempts from three to unlimited. The Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial ...

Six years have now passed since the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) was introduced as part of a suite of educational reforms to return Australia’s education system back to its ‘rightful’ place. Fuelled by an Australian ...

An internal government report has called for the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) to be held at the beginning of education degrees, so students aren’t potentially wasting their time. In comes after revelations that almost one ...

Concerns about the validity and fairness of the LANTITE test continue as two prominent academics in the education sector have commented on how the current Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) is administered. In a meeting with ...

Education lecturer questions the testing method and interpretation of the LANTITE teacher test.

According to The Advertiser (30 September 2019), ‘In 2016, the Teachers Registration Board SA cited legal advice that the [LANTITE] tests could not be retrospectively imposed as an extra requirement, so made them mandatory only for students who began their ...

When Education Review published an opinion piece by Mihad Ali highlighting her frustration with the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE), it sparked a debate online both on our Twitter and comments page. While many commentators believed that strong literacy ...

The year in review is available on the podcast above or you can read the summary below.  Education is not just important to us for what is does – educating our youth for their future – it’s also important, almost ...

  https://youtu.be/4ml-CnjhrD4   Teacher performance-linked pay, teacher performance generally and student achievement – these are three issues that are never far from the headlines. But are the debates founded on sound evidence or merely the thought bubbles of politicians and ...