John Colet school in Belrose, a private primary school on the northern beaches, has recorded some of the best writing scores ...

THOUSANDS of kids take the NAPLAN test each year. Here is your chance to see how you would go if asked the same question as your kids. Take the test! Since 2008, students have undergone NAPLAN ...

NAPLAN testing starts this week. With calls for a review, many education experts are calling the Future of NAPLAN into question. In this series, the experts look at options for removing, replacing, ...

There are no conflicts of interest. The Australian Government plans to conduct the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) online from 2016. This presents a significant challenge ...

The Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), which administers the NAPLAN tests for Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 across the country, confirmed that “a technical issue” had left many ...

A major disruption to NAPLAN testing yesterday has sparked an emergency meeting for education authorities, and could lead to kids taking the test again. As students continue to take NAPLAN online, ...

Australian parents had the opportunity to pore over NAPLAN results for their children's school this week, but interpreting the data may not have been clear at first glance. The Australian Curriculum ...

School principals have been given the go-ahead to give students extra time to finish today’s writing test on a case-by-case basis - a move at odds with the usual strict time period given for each ...

Some principals and school executives have been aghast to find many new generation teachers have little or no training in phonics, which is critical for children learning to read, while some got into ...

Tests are back on for primary and high school kids across NSW after technical difficulties threw the first NAPLAN exams into chaos, sparking calls to scrap standardised testing altogether. The ...