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Comparative Testing In Australian Schools: A Case Study

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Hi Everyone, In 2017 Comparative testing in Australian schools is now called NAPLAN. NAPLAN is an annual program for all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. Since 2008 the program was intended to be a diagnostic tool to measure three things: first, how each student is achieving; second, to examine national literacy and numeracy benchmarks are being achieved at each school; and third, how educational programs are working in Australia schools. This has certainly changed, now students are played off against each other as well as teachers and schools. You may even need to show your NAPLAN results to apply to enter a High School (Bowden, 2014; Wyn, 2014). Over the past 9 years, there has been a great deal of controversy where parents and educators
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