Early NAPLAN results show promise, but we don’t know the full impact of COVID school closures yet

Julie Sonnemann and Jordana Hunter

By Julie Sonnemann and Jordana Hunter
Community contribution / August 26, 2021

The early NAPLAN results for 2021 released today suggest the average impact of COVID school closures on literacy and numeracy in 2020 has been relatively small.

This was the first NAPLAN test since students moved to remote learning, and involved 1.2 million students in years ...

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