Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The NAPLAN writing test has damaged students’ skills, cornered teachers into promoting formulaic methods and will soon be made redundant ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In a troubled education era when consideration has been given to letting machines mark school students’ creative and narrative writing ...

A SHOCKING number of Year 9 students in NSW have failed this year’s NAPLAN writing test, continuing an alarming slide in literacy skills that has experts calling for urgent reforms in the classroom. A ...

Preliminary data from the latest National Assessment Program — Literacy and Numeracy, known as NAPLAN, has revealed some areas of improvement, such as in Years 5 and 9 numeracy and primary-level ...

SA scored above the Australian average in Year 9 writing – a first for any category in any year level since 2016 – and also made significant gains in writing in Years 3 and 5. However, the uplift in ...

Lucinda McKnight receives funding from the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English. A report of a review of NAPLAN released in recent days cited the writing part of the test to be the most ...

Rachael Jacobs is an NTEU member, a member of the NSW Greens, a founding member of Teachers for Refugees and on the board of Drama Australia. NAPLAN testing starts this week. With calls for a review, ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Mackay. Followed categories will be added to My News. Angela Hudson, who is a registered teacher, said it was scary when NAPLAN data was discussed based on the ...

SABRA LANE: The latest NAPLAN results are out today and show school students' results have only improved marginally since the tests were first introduced. There's been a 0.72 per cent improvement in ...