NAPLAN is a cornerstone of Australia’s school education system and could now provide the ammunition to drive important improvements, writes Jordana Hunter.
The annual tests of school students’ literacy and numeracy are in full swing. About 1.3 million Australian students in Years 3, 5, 7, and 9 will sit the online assessments, known as NAPLAN, over a two-week period., for students, and for the bureaucrats working hard to ensure the testing, data analysis, and reporting run smoothly.
The reboot of the NAPLAN assessment scale in 2023 might provide the impetus Australia needs to lift student performance. Details on exactly how the new proficiency standard has been set remain scant, and we will have to wait for the NAPLAN results later this year to know exactly what the more rigorous achievement categories reveal about the performance of Australia’s school system.In 2022, only 5 to 10 per cent of Year 9 students were identified as being below NAPLAN’s national minimum standard on reading and numeracy tests.
Governments should ensure all teachers have access to exemplary curriculum resources that enrich student knowledge and reduce the lesson-planning workload for teachers.
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