Nicky Dulfern's research was commissioned by the Whitlam Institute at the University of Western Sydney. NAPLAN tests – the literacy and numeracy tests given to primary and secondary students – are ...

What exactly do the National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests of language conventions achieve? In a recent interview, the Australian national curriculum project leader, ...

Charters Towers Central State School at Charters Towers was the second best with an increase of 11.6 per cent followed by Bwgcolman Community School at Palm Island with an increase of 10.16 per cent.

There were three significant changes to this year’s test – it moved from May to March, a new measurement scale was brought in to gauge student progress against national benchmarks, and the online ...

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