School students around Australia have begun their NAPLAN tests this week. Amid technical glitches during the writing component of the exam on Wednesday, there has also been confusion about the purpose ...

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, ...

Next month, we are expecting the results from the annual NAPLAN tests, which students in years 3, 5, 7 and 9 sat earlier this year. Each year, the tests are widely promoted as a marker of student ...

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 ...

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 ...

Australian students have recorded their worst-ever results in national tests that measure digital literacy, with just 37 per cent of year 10 students and 50 per cent of year 6 students assessed as ...

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 ...

Leongatha Secondary College principal Brett Windsor has defended a phone call to a parent offering to withdraw their child from the National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) test. The ...