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

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

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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 ...

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How has throwing $100 million at standardised testing not improved results? They despaired. Or more accurately, they shook their heads at the information that was of absolutely no surprise to them and ...

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

SCHOOLCHILDREN throughout the Riverina have been placed under unwarranted pressure by NAPLAN tests which provide an inaccurate assessment of important academic abilities.These are the fears of Charles ...

This year The Daily Telegraph has decided to use NAPLAN results as they were originally intended, to give teachers, parents and students the full picture on how their school performs. The decision ...