An Australian university’s push to overhaul literacy education has attracted a sizable donation to support evidence-based learning in rural and regional areas. The Bertalli Foundation donated $2.5 million over five years to La Trobe University to help establish literacy clinics ...

The Australian Curriculum Assessment Reporting Authority (ACARA) has thanked teachers and schools who made the test transition from May to March "as seamless as possible", while teachers and unions have expressed doubts over the benefits of the change. On Tuesday, ...

Changes to the NAPLAN testing window has raised stress for students and left little time for teachers to build relationships within their new classes, according to the Queensland Teachers' Union (QTU). More than 1 million Australian students in Years 3, ...

Education experts have called to push NAPLAN testing towards the end of the year to better assess students' progress and overhaul the writing test to make it more meaningful.  From tomorrow until 27 March, 1.3 million Australian students across 9800 ...

Teachers should try to check in and engage with their colleagues to help keep their stress levels at bay during NAPLAN season, an education expert has said. On Wednesday, more than 1.3 million students nationwide will sit the NAPLAN test. ...

With NAPLAN set to begin nationwide in less than a week, an education expert has argued the emergence of writing bots like ChatGPT will put an end to the writing test. Deakin University senior lecturer in pedagogy and curriculum Dr ...

Regional, rural and remote schools have scored on average lower than their city counterparts in the latest NAPLAN test. A recent News Corp analysis used MySchool data to track the 2022 NAPLAN results nationwide. The results are the first snapshot ...

Schools will have to navigate the recent NAPLAN changes carefully if they want to take advantage of the new testing window and reduce the emphasis they have previously put on the test, an education expert has said. This years NAPLAN ...

Australia's education ministers have announced major changes to standardised NAPLAN tests including changes to the way results are reported to teachers. On Friday, federal education minister Jason Clare and his state and territory counterparts signed off on a new marking ...

NAPLAN results for 2022 have shown an increase in writing for Year 5, 7 and 9 after a decade of decline, yet an expert said students' writing results have been plateauing since 2011. “ACARA’s report on the 2022 NAPLAN results ...