One of the world's leading education experts says NAPLAN writing tests are absurd and are turning Australian children into bad writers. Retired professor Les Perelman has completed review of NAPLAN ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Do you hear that sound? That’s the sound of the nation’s students, teachers and parents letting out a collective groan as the NAPLAN ...

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 ...

It's hoped the new NAPLAN format will help teachers better tailor lessons and support for students. But the education union fears underprivileged schools, and kids who speak a second language, are at ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. More than 1.3 million Australian students will have their reading, writing and maths skills assessed when they sit NAPLAN tests this ...

Primary school students across Australia are performing worse in basic reading and writing for the second year in a row, the latest NAPLAN results show.

She's undaunted by having 34 year 1 students in her class, and is also teaching them how to read and write — skills that will stay with them for life. Ms Hassan is a teacher at Auburn's Sydney ...

Thousands of schools across Australia have started a trial of online literacy and numeracy testing. NAPLAN first began a decade ago, testing students from years 3, 5, 7 and 9, using the traditional ...