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Widening gaps : what NAPLAN tells us about student progress / Peter Goss and Julie Sonnemann.

Widening gaps : what NAPLAN tells us about student progress / Peter Goss and Julie Sonnemann.
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Record Number 17833
ISBN 9781925015829
Author Goss, Peter
Title Widening gaps : what NAPLAN tells us about student progress / Peter Goss and Julie Sonnemann. [Electronic Resource]
Published Grattan Institute, 2016.
Collation 3 volumes.
Series Grattan Institute report no. 2016-3.
General Note The three volumes are a main report, a technical report and a spreadsheet containing chart data.
Summary Note "Learning gaps between Australian students of different backgrounds are alarmingly wide and grow wider as students move through school. The gap between students whose parents have low education and those with highly educated parents grows from 10 months in Year 3 to around two-and-a-half years by Year 9. Even if they were doing as well in Year 3, disadvantaged students make one to two years less progress by Year 9 than students whose parents have more education. Importantly, the learning gaps grow much larger after Year 3. Disadvantaged students are falling further behind each year they are at school. Bright kids in disadvantaged schools show the biggest losses, making two-and-a-half years less progress than students with similar capabilities in more advantaged schools ... In a typical Year 9 class, the top students can be more than seven years ahead of the bottom students, but NAPLAN’s minimum standards are set way too low to identify the stragglers. A Year 9 student meets the minimum standard even if they are reading below the level of a typical Year 5 student. Policymakers need to do three things: put learning gaps at the heart of school policy; give schools better support to target teaching at each child’s needs; and work harder to improve the progress of disadvantaged students so that every child in every Australian school can achieve their potential." - Grattan Institute website.
Subject National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN)
Educational tests and measurements -- Australia
Educational evaluation -- Australia
Children with social disabilities -- Education -- Australia
Educational equalization -- Australia
Added Name Sonnemann, Julie
Internet Site https://grattan.edu.au/report/widening-gaps/
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