Students would be selected to sit NAPLAN at random and school comparisons would be scrapped under a proposal to overhaul the national test to take pressure off students and schools.
The Gonski Institutes' submission said NAPLAN in its present form was used to assess the strengths and weaknesses of both individual students and entire school systems, which was a "problematic, if not impossible" expectation for a single test.Instead of trying to do both, the National Assessment Program should focus on monitoring systems' performance by randomly sampling different groups of students, rather than testing every child across years 3, 5, 7 and 9, it said.
Professor Piccoli said NAPLAN's benefits were outweighed by the negative effects. "On the international tests we've gone backwards, on NAPLAN we've plateaued at best, so why do we keep doing it when there are all these other unintended consequences?" he said.
JordsBaker Which parents? I think NAPLAN is unnecessary.
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