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Howell, Angelique – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
This paper examines primary school-aged children's lived experiences of the National Assessment Program--Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests. NAPLAN emulates the neoliberal accountability agendas of English and US education systems, with results published on the My School website. Research on the impact of NAPLAN to date has focused predominantly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, National Surveys, Student Experience
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Galletly, Susan A.; Knight, Bruce Allen; Dekkers, John; Galletly, Tracey A. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2009
Late-emerging reading-accuracy difficulties are those found present in older students not showing reading-accuracy difficulties when tested in earlier years (Leach, Scarborough and Rescorla, 2003). This paper discusses the constructs of reading-accuracy and late-emerging reading-accuracy difficulties. It then discusses data from a cross-sectional…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Low Achievement, Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties