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Ten Years of Print Media Coverage of NAPLAN: A Corpus-Assisted Assessment
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Mockler, 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
The Media's Coverage of 'Closing the Gap' in Australian Education
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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
NAPLAN Reporting Review. Prepared for COAG Education Council
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Louden, William – Education Services Australia, on behalf of the Education Council, 2019
The Education Council of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) commissioned a review of the current approach to the presentation of the National Assessment Program -- Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) data including information published on the "My School" website. The review was framed by four Terms of Reference, namely: (1)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, National Competency Tests, Numeracy