NAPLAN
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Health and Wellbeing
Absence, access to learning, and tests
When reading and maths results fall, the national response turns to curriculum, teaching methods, classroom behaviour, teacher shortages, funding and,…
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Policy & Reform
What major tests get wrong about Indigenous students
This Indigenous rights-based framework describe what an education system must do, not how far a student falls short. But as…
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In The Classroom
NAPLAN: Numeracy improves, literacy slips
Australia's latest NAPLAN results show improving numeracy outcomes for older students, but declining reading performance and weaker Year 3 maths…
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In The Classroom
Testing exposes Australia’s education divide
The latest NAPLAN results show achievement gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged students remain entrenched, with Indigenous, regional and lower socioeconomic…
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School Management
NAPLAN shouldn’t be used as an entrance exam
School students around Australia have begun NAPLAN testing, this week, and amid technical glitches, there has also been confusion about…
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In the News
Technical glitch as NAPLAN kicks off
A tech glitch postponed NAPLAN testing of hundreds of thousands of students on Wednesday morning, forcing schools to delay or…
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Opinion
NAPLAN stress can shut learning down
When a student’s heart starts racing at the sight of a NAPLAN booklet, their prefrontal cortex essentially checks out for the day.
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Workforce
Tas teachers refuse to administer NAPLAN
Unionised public school teachers in Tasmania will refuse to plan, prepare for or administer NAPLAN assessments as the pay deal…
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In The Classroom
Top NAPLAN performers revealed
The national NAPLAN results for more than 1.3 million students across the country are in, with the top schools in…
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School Management
Do school rankings tell the full story?
Lists of Australia’s “top” schools regularly make headlines. But do they really tell us which schools are the best? And…
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