When we are talking with a friend, we often use little ways of agreeing with and connecting with what someone says, ...

Geoff Masters works for ACER which undertakes commissioned research and development related to NAPLAN. NAPLAN testing starts this week. With calls for a review, many education experts are calling the ...

RADICAL changes to the national literacy and numeracy tests will ensure no student walks out of the exam room believing they are a loser. Every student will finish Naplan and strugglers will no longer ...

PRIMARY schoolchildren stressed and anxious about sitting Naplan are being offered special provisions including taking the exam on their own in a separate room with a teacher. Some pupils also are ...

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 ...

Students are completing NAPLAN practice trials in place of normal lessons and educators are “teaching to the test” three ...

Continuing reports on the destructive effects of the National Assessment Program—Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests, launched by the Rudd Federal Labor government a decade ago, are threatening the ...

Australian state and territory governments resumed National Assessment Program—Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests in schools this month, defying widespread opposition among teachers, education ...