Poor NAPLAN results showing a third of Western Australian students no longer meet basic proficiency standards underscore the importance of the state's agreement to a multi-billion dollar funding deal with the Commonwealth, the Premier says. Following the release of NAPLAN results showing that 30 per cent of WA students were at the bottom of the … Read more
A school in Western Australia has been given “advice” after being notified of the country’s only case of cheating in this year’s NAPLAN tests. The results of 19 children in third grade had to be removed from the national dataset after a teacher was found to have provided “inappropriate assistance” to students during the test.
One in three children in Western Australia struggle with reading, writing and maths, according to worrying results from this year's NAPLAN tests. About 30 percent of students in WA scored, on average, in the bottom two places in the statewide literacy and numeracy tests because they were unable to read, write or solve maths problems … Read more
The results of the annual math and reading tests have shown where girls and boys perform better and which year group of students needs additional support.