For some families, NAPLAN results will confirm what they already know. For others, they may contain surprises or raise concerns.
- Senior Research DECRA Fellow, Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education, Australian Catholic University
Peter Dutton wants to ensure schools are not ‘guided into some sort of an agenda that’s come out of universities’. Who creates the ‘map’ of what kids learn?
Parents can now search how their child’s school has performed in reading, writing, spelling, grammar and numeracy.
Schools have been releasing individual results to families since the start of term 3. Today, we have the overall results.
Two education researchers argue it is important we don’t let ‘curriculum wars’ distract us from the other issues hurting Australian schools and education.
According to this year’s NAPLAN results, one third of Australian students do not meet minimum achievement levels in literacy and numeracy.
NAPLAN testing has been brought forward from May to March and results will be reported against just four levels of achievement.
Results are coming back for students in years, 3, 5, 7 and 9. It can seem like a very big deal to stressed students. In reality, it is only one indicator of how a child is progressing.
Paying good teachers more sounds like a great idea. The problem is the research on performance pay shows it’s counterproductive – and inflicting it on a system in crisis is terrible timing.
Schools barely rated a mention in the election campaign. But the incoming Albanese government faces a sector in crisis.
Under no circumstances do NAPLAN scores alone indicate a student’s full potential, so linking them to any future job application is a dangerous idea.
The current debate about comparability would be more concerning if 2018 results showed radically different trends compared to previous years, but they don’t.
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