Australian students have recorded their worst-ever results in national tests that measure digital literacy, with just 37 per ...

The NAPLAN writing test should be scrapped in favour of assessing students’ AI skills or measuring their wellbeing, according ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. There are fresh calls from South Australian educators to rethink what, and how, we test in schools… ...

The chasm between rich and poor students in Australia has been growing over the past two decades, new research shows, but ...

Exclusive analysis by News Corp has revealed Australia’s top private primary school is the prestigious all-boys Sydney Grammar School in Darlinghurst.

Whenever NAPLAN season rolls around, parents and students start to get anxious. Studies have shown that students can feel extra stress around test time and that stress could cause problems for parents ...

"When a test claims to measure their abilities, we feel like we should do something - and the first thing is panic." For a test designed to assess kids’ literacy and numeracy skills, it sure seems to ...

Every year (except this year) Australian children in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 sit a standardised literacy and numeracy test — NAPLAN. When NAPLAN was brought in in 2008, the government argued it would be a ...

Nationally, 88.8 per cent of students in year three, five, seven and nine sat the annual aptitude test in March, with results from assessments in reading, writing, spelling, grammar and numeracy ...

NAPLAN testing starts this week. With calls for a review, many education experts are calling the Future of NAPLAN into question. In this series, the experts look at options for removing, replacing, ...