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Direct linkWescott, Stephanie – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
Post-truthism entered mainstream consciousness after being named "Oxford Dictionary's" word of the year in 2016, denoting a turn in the Western relationship with truth as a certain and indisputable object. Simultaneously, and paradoxically, rising distrust around teachers' professional judgement and a desire for certainty in practice saw…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Knowledge Level, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Evidence Based Practice
Evaluation of a Project Using a 'School-Based Index' to Improve Decision Making and Student Learning
Knipe, Sally; Bottrell, Christine – Educational Research Quarterly, 2023
The technological capacity that now exists to gather and store large amounts of data has improved access to information related to the academic performance, demographic profile and welfare needs of young people in a school. Improvements in data management techniques, statistical data analysis and software packages have made retrieving and…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Indexes, Data Analysis, Enrollment
Arantes, Janine Aldous – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
Recent negotiations of 'data' in schools place focus on student assessment and NAPLAN. However, with the rise in artificial intelligence (AI) underpinning educational technology, there is a need to shift focus towards the value of teachers' digital data. By doing so, the broader debate surrounding the implications of these technologies and rights…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Electronic Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Re-Imagining Narrative Writing and Assessment: A Post-NAPLAN Craft-Based Rubric for Creative Writing
Michael D. Carey; Shelley Davidow; Paul Williams – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2022
According to creative writing pedagogies academic Susanne Gannon ("English in Australia, 54"(2), 43-56, 2019), and the Federal government-commissioned NAPLAN review (McGaw et al., 2020), NAPLAN has restricted how writing is taught in secondary schools. A NAPLAN-influenced structural approach to teaching writing has subsumed the…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Creative Writing, Writing Evaluation, National Competency Tests
Download full textJill Cheeseman; Kerryn Driscoll – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2024
Leading primary school mathematics involves stimulating teacher learning for the purpose of improving students' mathematical outcomes. Currently there are staff shortages and school mathematics leadership may have changed. The results of a semi-structured interview with an experienced School Mathematics Leader who reflected on her work are…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Teacher Attitudes, Moral Values, Moral Development
Getenet, Seyum; Beswick, Kim – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2021
In this study, we examine children's National Assessment Program--Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) achievement predictors, which may enable or limit their numeracy performance and assess the relative importance of the predictor variables. Our data source was the NAPLAN numeracy results of Queensland schools from 2014 to 2017. Years 3 and 5…
Descriptors: Grade Prediction, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests
Hayes, Debra; Talbot, Debra; Mayes, Eve – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2020
Inequitable outcomes from schooling are an enduring and global concern. Large scale data sets of achievement in the form of international and national standardised tests provide geographies of the effects of schooling. Our interests as educational researchers have focused on mapping the local contours of schooling through the use of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Outcomes of Education, Ethnography
Larsen, Sally A.; Forbes, Alexander Q.; Little, Callie W.; Alaba, Simon H.; Coventry, William L. – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
A higher proportion of students are privately educated in Australia, compared with many other nations. In this paper, we tested the assumption that private schools offer better quality education than public schools. We examined differences in student achievement on the National Assessment Programme: Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) between public,…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Private Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Differences
Christine J. Jackson – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2022
Internationally, assessment and the use of diagnostic data are recognized as critical capabilities for teachers. This is not a recent development, with assessment recognized for some decades as playing a significant role in informing learning and learners.This paper will examine whether teachers and members of the school leadership team utilize…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Literacy, Numeracy, Instructional Leadership
Herbert, Sandra; Muir, Tracey; Livy, Sharyn – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2020
According to international studies of achievement in mathematics amongst Australian secondary school students, results have declined over time when compared with other countries. The National Assessment Program -- Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is an Australian government initiative to measure whether students have the knowledge, understanding,…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Numeracy, Institutional Characteristics, Secondary Schools
Karen Dooley – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2020
Parental use of private literacy tutoring has been one of the most controversial of the 'unintended outcomes' of the introduction of the National Assessment Program--Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), Australia's national regimen of literacy testing. Other uses of tutoring--whether NAPLAN-related or not--have attracted less public and research…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Private Education, Parent Attitudes, National Competency Tests
Corcoran, Tim; Claiborne, Lise; Whitburn, Ben – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2019
Life's paradoxes present across the varied landscapes we traverse in education and serve as formidable barriers in attempts to secure ethical consistency in practice. The presence of paradox invites educational researchers and practitioners to diligently examine our available choices, particularly when fixed by dominant ways of knowing/being. This…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Logical Thinking, Philosophy, Foreign Countries
McCallum, Kerry; Ryan, Tess; Caffery, Jo – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
Journalistic news values and digital technology align with education policy and practice to construct a narrow world of Indigenous educational achievement and contribute to a discourse of negativity, failure and disempowerment. Digital technologies have enabled the online publication of educational performance that is a valuable source of news for…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Culturally Relevant Education, Foreign Countries
Mockler, Nicole – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2020
The National Assessment Program -- Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) has been a key tenet of Australian education policy since its launch over a decade ago. Print media coverage of NAPLAN and myschool.edu.au, which displays and compares NAPLAN results across Australia, has played a role in both reporting and shaping this aspect of education policy.…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests, Literacy
Cumming, Joy; Goldstein, Harvey; Hand, Kirstine – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2020
In Australia, under the National Assessment Plan, educational accountability testing in literacy and numeracy (NAPLAN) is undertaken with all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 to monitor student achievement and inform policy. However, the extent to which these data have been analysed to report student progress is limited. This article reports a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Use, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries
