Dear Community,
This week our Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 students have been busy participating in the annual NAPLAN tests. NAPLAN stands for the National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy and involves a series of tests which are conducted at these year levels around the nation. Our students sit multiple choice tests in reading, conventions of language and numeracy and also sit a writing test.
Like with many international jurisdictions who conduct similar high-stakes standardised tests, NAPLAN has often become politicised, with proponents who believe that it delivers accountability around minimum education standards and opponents who tend to argue that the tests measure the wrong things and are misused to pressure teachers to adopt sub-optimal teaching strategies.
In my view, there is much to be gained from collating data on student progress and the NAPLAN is very useful in its offering of bench-marked assessments and a range
This week our Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 students have been busy participating in the annual NAPLAN tests. NAPLAN stands for the National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy and involves a series of tests which are conducted at these year levels around the nation. Our students sit multiple choice tests in reading, conventions of language and numeracy and also sit a writing test.
Like with many international jurisdictions who conduct similar high-stakes standardised tests, NAPLAN has often become politicised, with proponents who believe that it delivers accountability around minimum education standards and opponents who tend to argue that the tests measure the wrong things and are misused to pressure teachers to adopt sub-optimal teaching strategies.
In my view, there is much to be gained from collating data on student progress and the NAPLAN is very useful in its offering of bench-marked assessments and a range
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