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19/08/2025

2025 NAPLAN national results broadly stable, though disadvantaged students continue to underperform

Schools News August 2025 by Gemma Easton Latest data from the 2025 NAPLAN assessments show that performance is broadly stable at a national level, with two out of three students at

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06/08/2025

Yarning circles, murals and athletics: schools prove there’s more to a good education than Naplan results

The Guardian July 30, 2025 by Caitlin Cassidy When students at Lethbridge Park public school noticed their peers acting out in the playground, they asked for a meditation club. So the

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02/06/2025

Test scores out, creative designers in to engage children

BLOG by Pasi Sahlberg June 1, 2025 ...It’s time to recognise teachers as creative designers of learning and as frontline leaders for a better world. We need to trust them

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17/03/2025

NAPLAN Reading for Emotion: we need more from the NAPLAN marking guide

EduResearch Matters March 17, 2025 by Ania Lian, Anneliese Powell, Charles Darwin University NAPLAN testing is on right now. Researchers at Charles Darwin University (CDU) critically examined NAPLAN’s narrative marking

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21/02/2025

Mastering NAPLAN: The Authentic Way

teachific Literacy Blog 12 February 2025 by Sharon Callen As educators, we often grapple with the challenge of preparing students for standardised tests while maintaining authentic teaching practices. Sharon Callen's insights

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28/08/2024

NAPLAN: Time to think differently

EduResearch Matters August 29 2024 by Sophie Rudolph It’s not the results of NAPLAN that are the problem. It is NAPLAN testing itself. These standardised tests contribute to the maintenance of

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14/08/2024

Are the latest NAPLAN results really an ‘epic fail’?

August 14, 2024 The Conversation Sally Larsen Email X (Twitter) Facebook11 LinkedIn Print On Wednesday, Australia woke up to a barrage of reports about the latest NAPLAN results. Media coverage described an “epic fail”, “plummeting” performances

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14/08/2024

Latest data shows 2024 NAPLAN national results broadly stable

Media Release ACARA 14 August 2024 Findings from the NAPLAN National Results released today by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment andReporting Authority (ACARA) show that results at a national level were similar

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06/05/2024

AI May Be Coming for Standardized Testing

Education Week March 25, 2024 by Alyson Klein The highest profile international test may soon offer clues as to how artificial intelligence can be harnessed to create and score assessments that

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24/01/2024

NAPLAN has ‘insidious’ influence on teaching practices, new study shows

The Educator 30 Nov 2023 NAPLAN is severely inhibiting the capacity for educators to do things differently in the classroom, a new study has revealed. The research from the Australian Catholic University’s

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