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, ...

Whenever NAPLAN season rolls around, parents and students start to get anxious. Studies have shown that students can feel extra stress around test time and that stress could cause problems for parents ...

Every year (except this year) Australian children in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 sit a standardised literacy and numeracy test — NAPLAN. When NAPLAN was brought in in 2008, the government argued it would be a ...

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 ...

Australian parents had the opportunity to pour over NAPLAN results for their children's school this week, but interpreting the data may not have been clear at first glance. The Australian Curriculum ...

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 ...