NAPLAN testing starts this week. With calls for a review, many education experts are calling the Future of NAPLAN into question. In this series, the experts look at options for removing, replacing, ...
Australian state and territory governments resumed National Assessment Program—Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests in schools this month, defying widespread opposition among teachers, education ...
School principals have been given the go-ahead to give students extra time to finish today’s writing test on a case-by-case basis - a move at odds with the usual strict time period given for each ...
Tests are back on for primary and high school kids across NSW after technical difficulties threw the first NAPLAN exams into chaos, sparking calls to scrap standardised testing altogether. The ...
Australian students have recorded their worst-ever results in national tests that measure digital literacy, with just 37 per cent of year 10 students and 50 per cent of year 6 students assessed as ...
The Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), which administers the NAPLAN tests for Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 across the country, confirmed that “a technical issue” had left many ...