There’s a secret to scoring top marks in NAPLAN writing. And it’s easily missed by students

John Colet school in Belrose, a private primary school on the northern beaches, has recorded some of the best writing scores ...
The Conversation

NAPLAN writing tests hinder creativity, so what could we use in their place?

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, ...
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What Is NAPLAN and Will My Test Scores Impact University Admittance?

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 ...
The Daily Telegraph

Integrity of NAPLAN tests called into question as ‘knock-on’ impacts continue to mar assessments

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 ...
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Stressed Naplan students to sit tests in a separate room

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 ...
The Conversation

Too many adjectives, not enough ideas: how NAPLAN forces us to teach bad writing

A report of a review of NAPLAN released in recent days cited the writing part of the test to be the most problematic. The report noted the NAPLAN […] has led to formulaic writing in students’ ...