Rachael Jacobs is an NTEU member, a member of the NSW Greens, a founding member of Teachers for Refugees and on the board of Drama Australia. NAPLAN testing starts this week. With calls for a review, ...

Whenever NAPLAN season rolls around, parents and students start to get anxious. Studies have shown that students can feel extra stress around test time and that stress could cause problems for parents ...

NAPLAN testing for 1.3 million Australian school students resumes following technical problems that saw schools across the country unable to access the digital test.

The 2026 NAPLAN results will be reviewed to ensure no students had any unfair advantage due to a website outage stalling testing for more than one million students across the nation.

PRIMARY schoolchildren stressed and anxious about sitting Naplan are being offered special provisions including taking the exam on their own in a separate room with a teacher. Some pupils also are ...

School principals have been given the go-ahead to give students extra time to finish today’s writing test on a case-by-case basis - a move at odds with the usual strict time period given for each ...

A report of a review of NAPLAN released in recent days cited the writing part of the test to be the most problematic. The report noted the NAPLAN […] has led to formulaic writing in students’ ...

System failures left many students across the country unable to log on to the online testing platform on the first day of the ...

Tests are back on for primary and high school kids across NSW after technical difficulties threw the first of four NAPLAN exams into chaos on Wednesday, sparking calls to scrap standardised testing ...