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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 ...

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

The Australian Education Union have called on States and Territories to boycott NAPLAN online testing because it would severely disadvantage students Yesterday, the Education Union called on states ...

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 ...

Senior Research DECRA Fellow, Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education, Australian Catholic University It’s that time of year again when parents and students anxiously await their NAPLAN ...

After years of high stakes NAPLAN, it is time we listen to educators and give testing a much needed shake-up. There is so much controversy and general noise around NAPLAN that for many years ...

NAPLAN testing has kicked off in chaos for students across almost 70 Adelaide schools in the first year without back-up paper tests. Almost 70 schools were affected by the outage, which struck at ...

An Australian study has revealed the clear link between eating breakfast and academic success, with students who skip ...

Education ministers today resolved to review the way data from the tests is shared, in response to concerns publication on the My School website leads to “league tables” ranking schools. The review, ...

The teacher has been ­referred for disciplinary action for the incident, which ­involved tests for two classes at the ­unnamed school. Other incidents revealed by the Australian Curriculum Assessment ...