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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

Tests are back on for primary and high school kids across NSW after technical difficulties threw the first NAPLAN exams into chaos, sparking calls to scrap standardised testing altogether. 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 ...

School principals have been given the go-ahead to give students extra time to finish today’s writing test on a case-by-case basis - a move at odds with the usual strict time period given for each ...

The Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), which administers the NAPLAN tests for Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 across the country, confirmed that “a technical issue” had left many ...