![]() ![]() NAPLAN tests are just one aspect of a school’s assessment and reporting process they do not replace ongoing assessments made by teachers about student performance. The tests provide parents and schools with an understanding of how individual students are performing at the time of the tests. Students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 participate in the annual NAPLAN tests in reading, writing, language conventions (spelling, grammar and punctuation) and numeracy. The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) assesses literacy and numeracy skills that are essential for every child to progress through school and life. "It has much greater focus on the value add that a school is delivering for the students by having a stronger focus on progress," Mr de Carvalho said.Information for Parents Why do students do NAPLAN tests? There is also a chart for the progress of a group of students in a given subject over the past five years. Other changes include a new table showing the percentage of students in a school who achieve above-average progress in reading, writing and numeracy. It doesn't mean the school itself is doing well according to student progress." And what they mean is the school that gets the top NAPLAN result. "So you will find some newspapers headline: 'The state's top NAPLAN performer'. "We know that 70 to 80 per cent of a school's result is associated with the socio-economic background of the students. Under new rules, accessing the My School website includes agreeing not to create league tables or use the data for commercial purposes. ![]() ![]() Media organisations doing so on parents' behalf and to get a "good story" would be breaking the law. Mr de Carvalho said the only way teachers and parents could look at league tables was if someone scraped data from the website. One of the strongest criticisms of NAPLAN was that parents and schools would create league tables allowing them to shop for the best school instead of looking for the school that was best for their child. "It reduces the opportunity for unfair comparisons between schools, based simply on achievement levels." "It's a much bigger pool of kids and we're getting a much more accurate reading of relative performance," said David de Carvalho, the chief executive of the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority. Instead of being able a compare a child's school against similar schools, from Wednesday the comparison group includes all school students in Australia who have the same socio-economic background. The council made changes to the way the results of the Australia-wide testing system are presented, following a review by an education expert. The Education Council accepted changes in the way NAPLAN results are presented following a review by an education expert. Critics of NAPLAN lose one of their strongest weapons on Wednesday when the latest results go live on the My School website, without the ability to create league tables of schools in the same neighbourhood or state.Ī campaign against NAPLAN by the Australian Education Union and state governments in NSW, Queensland, Victoria and the ACT was headed off by the federal government's Education Council last year. ![]()
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