Skip to content
  • Foundation for Learning and Literacy
  • Foundation for Learning and Literacy
  • Home
    • News
    • Who Rates as an Early Literacy Expert?
    • Foundation Touchstones
    • Become a Friend
    • Success Stories
  • About us
    • Governance Structure
    • Foundation Members
    • Foundation Friends
    • Promotional Media
    • Executive Login
  • For parents
    • Articles
    • Resources and Videos
  • Resources
    • Fact Checks
    • Research into Practice Conversations
    • Symposium
    • We All Like a Good Story
  • FFLL YouTube Channel
  • Close Search Form     Open Search Form
Category

Assessment

Foundation for Learning and Literacy
10/05/2023

Primary schools help children thrive, but they could be better and fairer

ABC 24 April 2023 by Pasi Sahlberg ... Another thing that distinguishes Australia from most other countries is our persistence of annual standardised literacy and numeracy tests in primary schools. Every parent
by admin
Foundation for Learning and Literacy
23/02/2023

Madonna King: NAPLAN has become the great divider, instead of a useful diagnostic tool

The New Daily 24 February by Madonna King ... Now, though, it seems NAPLAN has become the new great divider – between children and schools and even parents. Look at the media
by admin
Foundation for Learning and Literacy
13/11/2022

We Must Teach for ‘Range’ and ‘Depth’

Education Week - August 26, 2015 by James H. Nehring ...It’s time to stop measuring what can’t be measured, acknowledge the stunning complexity of learning, and build a system based on
by admin
Foundation for Learning and Literacy
03/11/2022

The good, the bad and the pretty good actually

November 3, EduResearch Matters AARE blog by Sally Larsen Every year headlines proclaim the imminent demise of the nation due to terrible, horrible, very bad NAPLAN results. But if we
by admin
Foundation for Learning and Literacy
10/12/2021

Yes, Australia’s PISA test results may be slipping, but new findings show most students didn’t try very hard

School News Australia by Stewart Riddle University of Southern Queensland Educators and policymakers must consider complex factors of social, economic and educational disadvantage and advantage to meet the Mparntwe Declaration goals
by admin
Foundation for Learning and Literacy
24/11/2021

A failure at 6? Data-driven assessment isn’t helping young children’s learning

The Conversation November 24, 2021 by Martina Tassone Children’s early years from birth to the age of eight are crucial for their social, emotional and intellectual development. However, early years education
by admin
Foundation for Learning and Literacy
21/11/2021

New study calls PISA’s relevance into question

The Educator by Brett Henebery 12 November 2021 “As our latest Snapshots report demonstrates, PISA can reveal a great deal of information that is incredibly valuable in helping policymakers make improvements.
by admin
Foundation for Learning and Literacy
06/07/2021

What’s inside the proposed changes to NAPLAN?

by Bett Henebery in The Educator 5 July 2021 Australia’s education ministers have agreed to a raft of changes to NAPLAN, flagging a greater focus on scientific and digital literacy, as
by admin
Foundation for Learning and Literacy
30/06/2021

Opinion: The time has come to stop assigning letter and number grades

The Hechinger Report: H. Richard Milner IV June 17, 2021 Schools should move away from assigning letter and numeric grades during the pandemic and beyond. It’s time to eliminate both the
by admin
Newer Articles »

© 2020 Foundation for Learning and Literacy

WordPress Theme by OptimizePress