The national literacy and numeracy tests for school children will be conducted online from 2016. The plan to move NAPLAN tests online was agreed to by state and territory education ministers at a ...

ONLINE NAPLAN tests that automatically adapt to students’ abilities will produce more meaningful results and reduce stress for children, education leaders say. But the assessment authority that runs ...

DOZENS of state schools have abandoned plans to transition to NAPLAN online amid mounting political and union opposition to the digital test. In February this year, 108 public primary and high schools ...

While other states experienced a few instances of significant IT issues, about 279,000 year 3, 5, 7 and 9 Queensland students managed to complete their numeracy and literacy tests with minimal ...

AUSTRALIA’S students will stick with old-school pen and paper after all the states pulled out of online trials of literacy and numeracy tests. Students in 1-in-10 schools in the ACT, Queensland, South ...

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 ...

All schools across Australia will participate in NAPLAN tests online from tomorrow. Wollongong born and bred. I love reporting about the Illawarra region and have been doing it for more than 20 years.

The Australian Education Council on Friday agreed to extend the trial of the online component of the National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) testing by one year to 2021. The ...

As 1.3 million students prepare to sit the tests this week, Queensland Teachers’ Union (QTU) president Cresta Richardson predicted that many parents would pull their children out of the tests. “This ...