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Ken Wiltshire: Pyne needs to do his job and fix these 3 emerging problems with schooling
Federal Education Minister, Christopher Pyne, seems distracted by other political events as some disturbing developments emerge in Australian …
Our obsession with school achievement data is misplaced: we’re measuring the wrong things.
In 2008 Australia began a national assessment program that tests school children in Years 3, 5, 7 and …
Australia’s most disadvantaged children invisible in official NAPLAN results
It seems simple enough. The idea behind the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) testing program …
Around the traps
Australian educational researchers continually produce world leading research findings that challenge the way we do things in schools …
There are better ways of testing than NAPLAN
Professor in education, University of South Australia. Constantly weighing a pig does not make it fatter, nor does …