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Direct linkMockler, Nicole – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2020
The National Assessment Program -- Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) has been a key tenet of Australian education policy since its launch over a decade ago. Print media coverage of NAPLAN and myschool.edu.au, which displays and compares NAPLAN results across Australia, has played a role in both reporting and shaping this aspect of education policy.…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests, Literacy
Heffernan, Troy A.; Maxwell, Jacinta – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
Since 2007, 'Closing the Gap' between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people has been an ambition of Australian state and federal governments in areas including education, employment, and health. This paper examines media responses to government policies aimed at closing the achievement gap in schools. The paper analyses print and online newspaper…
Descriptors: News Reporting, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Web Sites
Rose, Judy; Low-Choy, Samantha; Singh, Parlo; Vasco, Daniela – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
In 2018 NAPLAN (National Assessment Program -- Literacy and Numeracy) reached a 10-year milestone. Introduced in 2008 by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), NAPLAN assesses student literacy and numeracy in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. As a key education reform in Australia, NAPLAN has provoked critical debate across…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests, Literacy, Numeracy
