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Siew Fong Yap – Teaching Science, 2024
In Australia, it has been observed that there have been significant declines in the proportion of students studying senior sciences over the last two decades (Commonwealth of Australia 2017 & 2018; Steidtmann et.al, 2023). It has been suggested that one of the causes for this decline could be a link between students' literacy achievement and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, National Competency Tests, Numeracy
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Michael D. Carey; Shelley Davidow; Paul Williams – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2022
According to creative writing pedagogies academic Susanne Gannon ("English in Australia, 54"(2), 43-56, 2019), and the Federal government-commissioned NAPLAN review (McGaw et al., 2020), NAPLAN has restricted how writing is taught in secondary schools. A NAPLAN-influenced structural approach to teaching writing has subsumed the…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Creative Writing, Writing Evaluation, National Competency Tests