High school students are being asked “absurd” and “badly worded” questions in NAPLAN’s numeracy exams, but a lack of transparency from the national testing authority is preventing teachers from ...

Last week’s NAPLAN results landed with their usual media splash. There were headlines worrying about the significant proportions of students below certain benchmarks and specific questions about maths ...

The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is an annual assessment for students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. It is a nationwide measure through which parents/carers, teachers, schools ...

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, ...

Teachers in remote and regional parts of Queensland say they hold concerns that the NAPLAN test may be too city-centric. This week, around one million students in years 3, 5, 7 and 9 sat the tests, ...