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Lee, Jihyun; McArthur, William; Ellis, Neville John – Curriculum and Teaching, 2019
The purpose of this study was to compare students' results in mathematics from a large-scale standardized assessment, the National Assessment Program: Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), with a set of teacher-developed, school-based assessments. A case study of an all-boys secondary school in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was conducted over…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, National Competency Tests, Numeracy
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Grasby, Katrina L.; Byrne, Brian; Olson, Richard K. – Australian Journal of Education, 2015
Each year, all Australian students in grades 3, 5, 7 and 9 sit nationwide large-scale tests in literacy and numeracy which have their validity frequently questioned. We compared the performance of grade 3 twins on these large-scale reading tests with their performance on three individually administered literacy tests in comprehension, word reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests, Numeracy, Literacy