According to this year’s NAPLAN results, one third of Australian students do not meet minimum achievement levels in literacy and numeracy.
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Students who perform below standards in Year 3 require more support to catch up to their peers.
Our analysis reveals the participation rate is alarmingly low for some groups of students, such as First Nations kids and students from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds.
The current debate about comparability would be more concerning if 2018 results showed radically different trends compared to previous years, but they don’t.
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Senior Research DECRA Fellow, Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor of Education Policy and the Future of Schooling, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Australian Catholic University
