In the absence of NAPLAN,schools can now choose whether their year 5 and 9 students will sit an online test to check their progress.
Macquarie University researchers looked at health and education data from more than 5000 students.
Spring Parks Primary School has used its disadvantaged status to its advantage,spending equity funding on literacy and numeracy experts to raise its results.
Education ministers have decided to cancel NAPLAN for 2020
Education ministers have decided to cancel NAPLAN for 2020 as schools hustle to prepare remote learning materials ahead of possible closures.
Schools will have to earn the freedom to make their own decisions by meeting targets after the government admitted it surrendered power to intervene in under-performing schools.
A 10-year summary of NAPLAN results shows far more Queensland students are withdrawn from the national testing regime than in any other state.
Education Minister Sarah Mitchell has said she will"keep pushing"for changes to NAPLAN including making the tests earlier in the year,spreading them over multiple weeks and getting results back much faster.
While the federal education minister calls for a'back to basics'approach,an economics professor and a former NSW education minister argue our children need higher-order skills.
Queensland's Education Minister argues NAPLAN testing puts a large amount of stress on students and teachers to produce what is portrayed as a ranking of schools.
A review of NAPLAN has proposed major change including shifting the test to the start of the school year to stop schools “wasting time” teaching to the test.