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Ban or no ban - the campaign to abolish NAPLAN in its current form goes on
Last year, NAPLAN testing was cancelled due to the pandemic. The year before it was plagued with glitches and outages. Will we still be grappling with these issues in five years’ time? When will it end? - Queensland Teachers' Journal, Vol 126 No 2, 12 March 2021, page no. 9
Editorial - Time for NAPLAN to go
The QTU State Council voted unanimously to conduct a ballot of members in schools to boycott NAPLAN in its entirety in 2020.
From the VP:
There is no doubt that the action being taken by QTU members has fuelled interest in NAPLAN testing and has led to a focus on the need for a review.
From the VP: NAPLAN: You have been heard!
Three key ingredients for a successful campaign are anger, hope and action. These have been well and truly on display in our ongoing NAPLAN campaign.
Have your say on the impact of NAPLAN
The QTU is surveying members to gather more detailed information about the impact of NAPLAN in Queensland schools.
How to improve NAPLAN: Step one – don’t have it. Step two…
The message from members is clear – NAPLAN in its current form needs to go. It is the Union’s view that the high stakes nature of the program needs to change. / Kate Ruttiman - Queensland Teachers' Journal, Vol 126 No 3, 9 April 2021, page no.9
NAPLAN ballot draws a line in the sand
Late in 2017, more than 20,000 QTU members expressed their feelings about standardised testing and robot marking, loudly and clearly, by voting in large numbers to ban the implementation of NAPLAN Online, call for a full review of the NAPLAN testing regime, reject robot marking and resist any move to implement the Turnbull government’s proposed standardised phonics test for six year olds.
NAPLAN Online FAQs
The QTU is banning NAPLAN Online. Here you can find the answers to some of the common questions raised about the Union’s position.
NAPLAN survey results are in: time for a review!
More than four and a half thousand teachers and school leaders have completed the QTU’s NAPLAN and MySchool member survey.
NAPLAN tri-state review - interim report released
The interim report of the tri-state review into NAPLAN provides much food for thought.
NAPLAN: Evaluation is just good policy
Greg Thompson, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, QUT School of Teacher Education and Leadership, backs the QTU's call for a full review of NAPLAN.
NAPLAN: sample over census
With NAPLAN 2021 behind us, the issues that the QTU has raised in recent months around the national test remain.
What does a NAPLAN ban actually look like?
QTU members have voted on whether to implement a ban of NAPLAN. You may ask though, what does a ban on NAPLAN actually mean for me?
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