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Glenn Fahey

Quitting NAPLAN would be a fail for Australian education

Opponents of standardised national testing ignore the international evidence that greater transparency improves school systems performance.

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Australia’s education system would be worse off without NAPLAN. Yet a new report proposes replacing the standardised, national assessment with an array of teacher-selected ones.

That’s despite multiple independent reviews consistently handing down recommendations to keep, but continually develop, the national assessment. Successive reports have confirmed NAPLAN is highly valued by educators and parents alike.

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Glenn Fahey is a research fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies, and formerly held research and policy positions with the OECD.

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