NAPLAN critics âweaponise student stressâ
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Calls to scrap the national schoolsâ assessment is an attempt to weaponise student and parent anxiety against what is a low-stakes test, education experts say.
âNAPLAN provides external accountability which gives assurance to parents, but also helps schools make planning decisions and provides a professional reference tool for teachers against the national standards,â said Glenn Fahey, research fellow in education policy at the Centre for Independent Studies.
Mr Fahey was responding to a report calling for NAPLAN to be scrapped. The report
Putting Students First: Moving on from NAPLAN to a new educational assessment system from the Gonski Institute at the University of NSW, calls for the end of universal testing of all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. It recommended NAPLAN be replaced by a suite of nationally-consistent online tests and questions that can be deployed by teachers when they choose.
Ditch NAPLAN Tests For System That Puts Students First: Report
The Gonski Institute for Education is calling for the government to ditch NAPLAN tests rather than reform them and replace the standardized exams with tests that put the interest of students first.
In its new report, ‘Putting Students First,’ the Gonski Institute has proposed new sample-based testing of students that “builds trust and capacity,” moving away from NAPLAN’s census approach that has a “strong focus on accountability.”
The main proposal is to replace the current literacy and numeracy tests in years 3, 5, 7, and 9 with sample-based assessments in years 4, 6, 8, and 10 while complemented with teacher-led assessments in schools.
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In my career, I have asked thousands of parents what they want for their children as a result of their being educated. Invariably, the answer is “happiness,” by which they meant privately content and publicly fulfilled.
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In my career, I have asked thousands of parents what they want for their children as a result of their being educated. Invariably, the answer is happiness, by which they meant privately content and publicly fulfilled.
Ironically, BEST (Better Education Starts Today Putting Students First), Bill 64’s implementation scheme, implies that children which it describes as our most valuable asset exist almost exclusively as interchangeable articles of trade in the open-market economy. When education and the people who engage in it are treated like just one more plentiful commodity, our individual and collective humanity take a big hit.
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