NAPLAN scores survived the COVID closures

A new study co-authored by researchers from UNSW Business School and University of Sydney suggests that Australian students’ NAPLAN scores remained stable despite the COVID lockdowns, but the social and psychological effects of the long-lock downs are less certain.

Gaming the system

Some schools appear to be manipulating student participation in the NAPLAN tests to improve their apparent performance according to new research from UNSW Business School.

Much ado about NAPLAN

Do the recently released NAPLAN results for 2024 mean that Australian students’ literacy and numeracy proficiency have really declined since 2022?

Rethinking NAPLAN

Schools survived without NAPLAN in 2020. They taught, they assessed, they reported, and – most importantly – they supported. From that lesson, we should reimagine the testing regime so that schools and students can be helped to thrive.

A replan for NAPLAN

This has been a year of schools closing and a rapid switch to online learning. It’s also been a year with no NAPLAN, offering a chance to reassess how we monitor school performance.

Australia’s education system is stagnating at best, heading backwards at worst. 

We have recorded a decade of declining school and student performance against OECD standards and the most recent NAPLAN results revealed there’s been no significant improvement across most year levels since 2008.