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.
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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.
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