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Many reports over the 12 years of NAPLAN’s existence have highlighted a plethora of issues with the test that need to be urgently addressed. And the most recent review is not exception.
After years of neoliberal policies eroding the tax base to pay for high schools, mandatory online learning curriculum from classrooms could be the next international money-maker.
Closing the reading achievement gap continues to be a pressing global challenge.
After 20 years of education strife in Ontario, it’s time to look overseas for inspiration to rethink what education is about.
Education minister Nadiem Makarim announced he would abolish Indonesia’s national exams in favour of a PISA-style student assessments. We asked two experts how this policy should best be rolled out.
PISA tests only three subjects that aren’t representative of an entire education system. Meanwhile, the test conditions are different across countries and comparisons are fraught.
Australia spends virtually the same on schools as the Estonian government, once wage differences are taken into account.
The skills children learn at school have dramatic implications for their own future and the nation’s productivity, living standards and income inequality.
High performing systems focus on the same things Australian governments do, but they work much more intensively on making these things happen.
Australian education is still going backwards from where we started in 2000 – new PISA results show.
Every three years, the OECD releases its Programme for International Student Assessment results. Last time, Australia’s education system was doing much worse than some other countries. Has it changed?
Implementing educational policies that promote long-term achievement and attainment is possible, but requires going beyond news headlines.
There are many reasons to be skeptical about PISA rankings, and their use to compare student achievement or to identify best practices or solutions for educational problems.
The stakes could be highest for students around the world as education systems decide how to respond to the changing shape of global standardized testing.
Are current forms of standardized literacy tests really measuring children’s capacity to read and interact with our rapidly-changing world?
The Shanghai maths method is considered to be one the best in the world for teaching students mathematics, but it doesn’t necessarily translate well into English schools.
Culturally-responsive student assessment and evaluation is key to student success in diverse, globalized societies.
Reports that Australian classrooms are some of the most disruptive in the world are based on the experiences of 15-year-old students alone, and focus on science classes.
News of Canada’s successful immigrant students glosses over important stories of racism, for example the ‘streaming’ of Black males. But without more data beyond Toronto, the story is hard to share.
Top contributors
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Deputy CEO (Research), Australian Council for Educational Research
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Professor, Brock University
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Lecturer in Economics and Social Statistics, UCL
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Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Education, Sheffield Hallam University
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Associate professor, Deakin University
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Professor of Education, Southern Cross University
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Research Fellow, Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment, University of Oxford
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Research group leader, principal investigator, and ATTRACT-fellow, University of Luxembourg
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Director of Research and Deputy Head of Southampton Education School, University of Southampton
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Canterbury Christ Church University
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School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor, Beijing Normal University
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Research Fellow, Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment, University of Oxford
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Professor of Economics, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
