NAPLAN online - better, faster, or reinforcing inequality?

Chelsea Channing

By Chelsea Channing
Published September 12, 2017

Imagine a future where NAPLAN is no longer an anxiety-inducing hurdle over which teachers and students must leap.

Where test items are engaging and targeted to multiple abilities, and teachers eagerly await testing day and the results which ...

This story appeared in the October 2017 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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