The Educator Weekend Wrap: New NAPLAN data, students unprepared and 'dangerous' new guidelines
Making news this week, MySchool website updated with NAPLAN results, an ‘early learning crisis’ and schools get new mandatory reporting guidelines.
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New NAPLAN data released
The latest NAPLAN data from 2015 has been released on the Federal Government’s MySchool website. How did your school perform?
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Moving NAPLAN online could ‘widen achievement gap’
Moving NAPLAN online has serious implications for disadvantaged students, warns the professor who co-reviewed the national curriculum.
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The Educator: Year in Review
2015 was a big year in education. The Educator takes a look at some of the highlights.
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The Educator Weekend wrap: Principals under siege, SRE materials axed and NAPLAN's latest report
Making news this week, principals in danger, controversial SRE materials get axed from schools and NAPLAN releases its latest report.
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NAPLAN 2015 report released
The 2015 NAPLAN National Report has been published. How did your state perform?
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Automated essay scoring ‘as reliable as human markers’
ACARA has released research claiming that automated essay scoring is “a viable solution” for marking NAPLAN online writing tasks.
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Digital skills of students in decline
A national report has revealed the digital skills of Australian students are at their worst level in four years, despite the increased use of technology in schools.
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Opinion: NAPLAN - Looking to the future
Educators have an obligation to prepare children not only for the world that is here, but also for the world that’s coming, says ACARA CEO, Robert Randall.
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How to make NAPLAN more useful
Declining NAPLAN scores have more to do with the test itself than the teaching, literacy expert Dr Jae Major tells The Educator. Here’s how it might be improved.