NAPLAN results inform schools, parents and policy. But too many kids miss the tests altogether
- Written by: Lucy Lu, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
ShutterstockToday the NAPLAN testing window starts for more than a million students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. Over the next nine days students will sit literacy and numeracy tests which are designed to measure their reading, writing, numeracy, grammar, punctuation and spelling.
Education decision makers will be holding their breath about how many...
