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More than half of NSW year 9 students would fail at the first hurdle to get their HSC based on this year's NAPLAN results, new statistics from the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority have revealed.
It follows the surprise announcement in July by NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli that students would be required to meet a minimum literacy and numeracy standard to receive their HSC
This year's full NAPLAN results confirm that in the 2016 year 9 cohort, more than half of all students in the reading, grammar and punctuation, spelling and numeracy tests received Band 7 or below
In writing, more than two-thirds of students scored Band 7 and below.
The Board of Studies has been at pains to point out that students who don't meet the minimum standard in their year 9 NAPLAN will have several subsequent opportunities to demonstrate the minimum HSC requirements by taking online tests.
But the opposition and parents are concerned that students who do not get Band 8 and above will be labelled as failures.
A petition to scrap the reforms saying it will place unnecessary HSC-level pressure on 14-year-olds has gathered 5000 signatures.
Year 9 NAPLAN NSW 2016 results
From 2017, students who get Band 8 or above will have met the minimum literacy and numeracy standards for their HSC.
The detailed NAPLAN results confirmed the summary report released in August, which showed flatlined results from the previous national test of the literacy and numeracy knowledge of all students in years 3, 5, 7 and 9.
"Our concern is we're not seeing improvement in these results, on all the measures," said Robert Randall, chief executive of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), which administers the tests.
"Plateauing results are not what we should expect or assume from our education system."
While some content groups and year groups showed improvement on the 2008 levels (when the test started), in recent years NAPLAN results have largely plateaued.
"There have been improvements in many schools across the country and some improvement in some states and territories. However, at a national level NAPLAN results have shown no significant improvement across the domains and year levels in the last few years. We should expect more for our children," Mr Randall said.
Girls on average continued to perform more strongly in the literacy tests while boys performed more strongly in the numeracy test, although there was substantial overlap.
In one bright spot, indigenous students have chalked up gains since 2008, including in reading (years 3 and 5), numeracy (year 5), spelling (year 3), grammar and punctuation (years 3, 5 and 7), Mr Randall said.
Western Australia and Queensland also posted significant gains, though the ACT, NSW and Victoria continue to have the highest mean scores across the NAPLAN domains in years 3, 5 and 7.
Federal education minister Simon Birmingham said "our plateauing NAPLAN results and inconsistent improvements across states, territories and different demographics once again highlights that while strong levels of investment in schools are important, it's more important to ensure that funding is being used on initiatives proven to boost student results."
Mr Birmingham repeated his commitment to tie schools funding to states implementing the "Quality Schools, Quality Outcomes" reforms, which he argues will boost student outcomes.
The NAPLAN data also revealed 47 test incidents in 2016, of which two were cheating, 16 were a security breach and 29 were a "general breach", in numbers similar to previous years and according to ACARA, too small to have any impact on the overall results.
From 2017, NAPLAN will transition from paper-based to an online-only test, with about 10 per cent of schools taking the test online in the first year, and all schools to be testing online by 2019.
The detailed NAPLAN results come after two weeks of poor results in international tests designed to judge students basic maths and science knowledge in year 4 and year 8 (TIMSS) and problem solving skills in maths, reading and science (PISA) for 15-year-olds.
Source:http://www.smh.com.au/national/educ...ould-fail-first-hsc-test-20161209-gt7tix.html
It follows the surprise announcement in July by NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli that students would be required to meet a minimum literacy and numeracy standard to receive their HSC
This year's full NAPLAN results confirm that in the 2016 year 9 cohort, more than half of all students in the reading, grammar and punctuation, spelling and numeracy tests received Band 7 or below
In writing, more than two-thirds of students scored Band 7 and below.
The Board of Studies has been at pains to point out that students who don't meet the minimum standard in their year 9 NAPLAN will have several subsequent opportunities to demonstrate the minimum HSC requirements by taking online tests.
But the opposition and parents are concerned that students who do not get Band 8 and above will be labelled as failures.
A petition to scrap the reforms saying it will place unnecessary HSC-level pressure on 14-year-olds has gathered 5000 signatures.
Year 9 NAPLAN NSW 2016 results
From 2017, students who get Band 8 or above will have met the minimum literacy and numeracy standards for their HSC.
The detailed NAPLAN results confirmed the summary report released in August, which showed flatlined results from the previous national test of the literacy and numeracy knowledge of all students in years 3, 5, 7 and 9.
"Our concern is we're not seeing improvement in these results, on all the measures," said Robert Randall, chief executive of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), which administers the tests.
"Plateauing results are not what we should expect or assume from our education system."
While some content groups and year groups showed improvement on the 2008 levels (when the test started), in recent years NAPLAN results have largely plateaued.
"There have been improvements in many schools across the country and some improvement in some states and territories. However, at a national level NAPLAN results have shown no significant improvement across the domains and year levels in the last few years. We should expect more for our children," Mr Randall said.
Girls on average continued to perform more strongly in the literacy tests while boys performed more strongly in the numeracy test, although there was substantial overlap.
In one bright spot, indigenous students have chalked up gains since 2008, including in reading (years 3 and 5), numeracy (year 5), spelling (year 3), grammar and punctuation (years 3, 5 and 7), Mr Randall said.
Western Australia and Queensland also posted significant gains, though the ACT, NSW and Victoria continue to have the highest mean scores across the NAPLAN domains in years 3, 5 and 7.
Federal education minister Simon Birmingham said "our plateauing NAPLAN results and inconsistent improvements across states, territories and different demographics once again highlights that while strong levels of investment in schools are important, it's more important to ensure that funding is being used on initiatives proven to boost student results."
Mr Birmingham repeated his commitment to tie schools funding to states implementing the "Quality Schools, Quality Outcomes" reforms, which he argues will boost student outcomes.
The NAPLAN data also revealed 47 test incidents in 2016, of which two were cheating, 16 were a security breach and 29 were a "general breach", in numbers similar to previous years and according to ACARA, too small to have any impact on the overall results.
From 2017, NAPLAN will transition from paper-based to an online-only test, with about 10 per cent of schools taking the test online in the first year, and all schools to be testing online by 2019.
The detailed NAPLAN results come after two weeks of poor results in international tests designed to judge students basic maths and science knowledge in year 4 and year 8 (TIMSS) and problem solving skills in maths, reading and science (PISA) for 15-year-olds.
Source:http://www.smh.com.au/national/educ...ould-fail-first-hsc-test-20161209-gt7tix.html