As students Australia-wide get ready to sit the 2019 NAPLAN tests in May, yesterday, the National Report from last year was released. The suite of tests, which assess literacy and numeracy in years 3, 5, 7 and 9, continues to ...
More »Full report released for embattled NAPLAN
The NAPLAN report card has been published and it confirms the findings of the snapshot released in August last year. While there were no statistically significant changes in any of the NAPLAN test domains when compared with 2017 results, ACARA ...
More »Ditch NAPLAN for sample testing: Gonski Institute
Australia should scrap the current census approach of NAPLAN and replace it with sample testing of students, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has been told. In its submission to COAG's review of NAPLAN, the Gonski Institute for Education at ...
More »Postcode pitfalls: plans to see how a student’s neighbourhood affects school performance
Do students who live near factory pollution have more trouble learning than those in cleaner neighbourhoods? Will they be less likely to attend class if they have to pass through a rough area on their way there? These are some of ...
More »A new way of measuring what matters in schools: Grattan’s take on NAPLAN
When looking at NAPLAN results, governments should take stock of the states or territories where students are best progressing and figure out the reasons why. By doing so, they can learn what’s working and what isn’t and help one another ...
More »Raising writing skills for Australian students
Student writing skills have declined by nearly 24 points since 2011, according to the latest NAPLAN results data released in early September. Only 79.5 per cent of Year 9 students met the minimum writing standards in the 2018 literacy test, ...
More »Early NAPLAN marks released amid terse trans-Pacific debate
Schools now have their hands on early NAPLAN data, a day after two US professors called for the marks to be discarded, and questioned the futility of comparisons with previous years. ACARA today released the NAPLAN 2018 summary information, which ...
More »What drives teaching quality? A PISA co-creator’s take
Last week's hand-wringing over the comparability of online NAPLAN tests with paper versions is moot. That is, according to one of the architects of PISA, Professor Doctor Eckhard Klieme. Klieme, a professor of education research (with a background in maths and psychology) ...
More »NAPLAN authority attempts to quell data set concerns
Parents and teachers will be able to compare the standardised NAPLAN test results of students who took the exams online with those who used traditional pen and paper. The national assessment body says its data analysts have confirmed the two ...
More »Youth unemployment can’t be fixed with NAPLAN: Mitchell Institute
A senate inquiry has heard that Gonski funding aside, schools aren't doing enough to prepare students for life. Victoria University's Mitchell Institute Director Megan O'Connell told the inquiry on the future of work that an intense focus on grades has led ...
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