The Ukraine war shows how important agile and critical social media use can be. It’s a reminder that our English curriculum in schools is out of touch with our world of digital communication.
Would formal exams be a better measure of year nines’ performance than the teacher assessments currently in place?
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Disruptions to schooling at the lower grades should be remedied, otherwise there could be a serious impact on the quality of Matriculants a decade or more from now.
Around 25% of Indonesian students as high as in the fifth grade still struggled to understand short paragraphs, research suggests.
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Indonesian researchers developed an Indian-inspired toolkit to assess literacy and numeracy among elementary-level students. The results were worrying.
Large-scale literacy testing has not kept pace with how literacy is practiced in classooms, assessed by teachers and mandated by curriculum.
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Standardised tests are a powerful tool for building an evidence base of what works to guide education policy.
Results from the 2017 NAPLAN results showed very little improvement since the test was introduced 10 years ago.
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NAPLAN is good at measuring some aspects of education, including knowledge difference between demographics, but has not produced a positive effect on student learning outcomes.
To make sure we get the most out of education, we may need to both broaden our narrative about standardised testing and try to minimise its negative influences.
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The use of standardised testing is a divisive topic, and most of the disagreement comes down to beliefs about whether using it to control education is a good or bad thing.
The most reliable way to find the best school for your child is to visit and find out about its philosophy and programs.
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Many young children can give the false impression that they are learning to read, when in fact they are mostly guessing words from pictures or context. This test will help to identify these students.
New evidence-based methods of teaching and learning are being taken up very slowly.
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South Africa’s annual matric pass rate obscures important differences in provincial achievements, the rural and urban divide and the unequal outcomes for learners in poorer schools.
How can we use data from international tests to improve student learning?
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