Drawing on interviews with 27 Queensland teachers and school leaders, plus observations from staff meetings and classrooms, researchers have investigated ...
‘Hidden, normative and covert’: invisible NAPLAN practices dictate schools, research finds
NAPLAN has become so “insidiously embedded” into Australian schooling that many educators no longer question – or even realise – the profound impact the test is wielding on their daily practice, new research has found.
The research found most of what teachers were doing in schools was underpinned by NAPLAN, but because it was so normalised they didn't link it to the test.