Australia Association for Research in Education
NAPLAN
Q:Which major party will fully fund public schools? A:None. Here’s what’s happening
You would be forgiven for thinking that policy related to schooling is not a major issue in Australia. …
NAPLAN is not a system-destroying monster. Here’s why we should keep our national literacy and numeracy tests
Australia’s numeracy and literacy testing across the country in years 3, 7, and 9 is a fairly bog …
How school principals respond to govt policies on NAPLAN. (Be surprised how some are resisting)
School principals in Australia are increasingly required to find a balance between improving student achievement on measurable outcomes (such as NAPLAN) and focusing energies on things that can’t as easily be measured; such as how well a school teaches creative and critical thinking, how it connects with its local community or how collaboratively teachers on …
It’s time to be honest with parents about NAPLAN: your child’s report is misleading, here’s how
You know there is something going wrong with Australia’s national testing program when the education minister of the largest state calls for it to be axed. The testing program, which started today across the nation, should be urgently dumped according to NSW Education Minister, Rob Stokes, because it is being “used dishonestly as a school …
NAPLAN testing begins for 2018 and here’s what our children think about it
Australia’s national literacy and numeracy testing program, NAPLAN, for 2018 begins today, on Tuesday 15th May. Classrooms have …
Learning to write should not be hijacked by NAPLAN: New research shows what is really going on
You couldn’t miss the headlines and page one stories across Australia recently about the decline of Australian children’s writing skills. The release of results of national tests in literacy and numeracy meant we were treated to a range of colour-coded tables and various info graphics that highlighted ‘successes’ and ‘failures’ and that dire, downward trend. …
The dark side of NAPLAN: it’s not just a benign ‘snapshot’
The release of the latest NAPLAN results this week identified a problem with student performance in writing. This …
This is what primary school children think about NAPLAN
There are no obvious consequences for poor National Assessment Program: Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) performance by individual children. So the notion that children should not be too stressed about doing the tests is not uncommon. However, as I see it, the idea that NAPLAN is a low-stakes test is an adult idea. It imposes an …
Dump NAPLAN stress: here’s a better way to do our national literacy and numeracy testing
We need to reform our national assessment program as a matter of urgency. Anyone who has stepped into …
NAPLAN and edu-business: the commercialisation of schooling in Australia
NAPLAN testing is orchestrating a high-stakes environment in Australian schools where schools, teachers, students and even parents feel the pressure to perform and do well. Edu-businesses are capitalising on this high-stakes environment for commercial advantage. Schools and governments now purchase products and services that are explicitly tied to test development and preparation, data analysis and …