The review, initiated by the NSW, Queensland, Victorian and ACT governments, proposes modifying NAPLAN and renaming it the Australian National Standardised Assessment (ANSA).
The proposal to maintain a standardised test has been criticised by teachers’ unions across the nation with the NSW Teachers Federation concerned the new test will just be more of the same.
A Queensland teacher has however defended the program and declared the review recommendations hold some promise for the future.
“I think what NAPLAN was originally supposed to do was a good idea – where you have a point in time every two years to find out where kids’ literacy and numeracy is at – that is a really good thing,” she said.
“However what schools do, because they have these ranking systems, they spend months teaching to the tests which is not a good idea.”
Included in the 180-page report is a recommendation that when the results are published it is emphasised they do not compare statistically similar schools.
“It is helpful data but using it to rank schools … I don’t think that is helpful,” the teacher said.
“If schools would stop teaching to the tests and would just administer the tests, it would be awesome.”
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