Tasmania’s 2022 Naplan results: How our state’s students went
It was the first time Naplan was ever delivered totally online, with about 25,000 Tasmanian students participating. Here’s what we learnt from the latest report.
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Australia’s 2022 Naplan National Report has been released and it paints an interesting picture for Tasmania, with the state boasting above average participation rates, but a decline in the performance of its Year 3 students.
However, this was more than offset by improved performance for Year 5, 7 and 9 students this year across most of the five domains: reading, writing, spelling, grammar and pronunciation, and numeracy.
One area of concern is that while Tasmanian students in Year 9 did improve slightly on last year’s result, overall since the test was implemented in 2008, they have gone backwards.
Tasmania had strong participation rates, bucking the national trend. Its participation rates in Year 5 were especially strong, with between 94.1 – 95.8 per cent of students tested across all five domains. Its participation rates were consistently higher than the national average, which was dragged down by the Northern Territory’s low rate.
Tasmanian students in Years 5 and 7 showed the greatest improvement from last year, while Year 3 performed weakest. The number of its students achieving at or above the national minimum standard (NMS) declined on average by 0.96 percentage points across the five domains.
Across all four year levels and all five domains, approximately 1.5 per cent more of mainland students achieved at or above the NMS than Tasmanian students.
Since the test was introduced in 2008, Tasmanian students have generally improved across all five domains in Years 3, 5 and 7. However, in Year 9, Tasmanian students have gone backwards since 2008.
Education Minister Roger Jaensch said about 25,000 Tasmanian students sat the test.
He said the result showed “some long-term gains for Tasmania in primary school literacy”.
“Tasmania’s results in reading at all year levels indicate that this is one of our strongest domains,” he said.
“Improving literacy and numeracy in Tasmania is essential to improving social and economic outcomes.
“We have set a target that by Year 7 all students will meet an expected reading standard that is above the national minimum, and by no later than 2030.
“The Progressive Achievement Test is being used throughout primary schools to track and measure student progress towards the achievement of this target.”
The 2022 Naplan test was the first conducted entirely online. A total of 1.2m students from 9313 schools nationwide sat a total of 4.3m tests. It was also the last test to be sat in May. From next year, it will be sat in Term 1.
Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority chief executive David de Carvalho said this year’s result showed predictions of a drastic fall in competency due to Covid – Year 5 students did not sit their Year 3 test, due to its cancellation in 2020 – were misplaced.
“Overall, for a second year in a row, the national level results have defied predictions of
drastic falls in performance related to Covid,” he said.
Low participation rates across the nation remained a worry, Mr de Carvalho said.
“This issue is of concern, as low participation rates can impact results analysis and the ability to get a clear picture of literacy and numeracy achievement at the national level,” he said.
Participation rates have been slowly falling since the start of Naplan. However, the decline this year was greater than the long-term rate.
NAPLAN RESULTS
Year 3
Reading: 93.8 per cent of students at or above the national minimum standard (NMS), down 0.9 percentage points from 2021.
Writing: 94.9 per cent of students at or above the NMS, down 1 percentage points from 2021.
Spelling: 87.2 per cent of students at or above the NMS, down 0.8 percentage points from 2021.
Grammar and pronunciation: 92.4 per cent of students at or above the NMS, down 0.4 percentage points from 2021.
Numeracy: 94 per cent of students at or above the NMS, down 1.7 percentage points from 2021.
Year 5
Reading: 93.7 per cent of students at or above the NMS, up 0.2 percentage points from 2021.
Writing: 90.5 per cent of students at or above the NMS, down 0.9 percentage points from 2021.
Spelling: 91.4 per cent of students at or above the NMS, up 0.7 percentage points from 2021.
Grammar and pronunciation: 93.2 per cent of students at or above the NMS, up 2.3 percentage points from 2021.
Numeracy: 93.8 per cent of students at or above the NMS, up 0.1 percentage points from 2021.
Year 7
Reading: 92.9 per cent of students at or above the NMS, up 2.3 percentage points from 2021.
Writing:88.6 per cent of students at or above the NMS, up 1.8 percentage points from 2021.
Spelling: 89.5 per cent of students at or above the NMS, down 1 percentage points from 2021.
Grammar and pronunciation: 89.4 per cent of students at or above the NMS, up 1.7 percentage points from 2021.
Numeracy: 90 per cent of students at or above the NMS, no change from 2021.
Year 9
Reading: 86.7 per cent of students at or above the NMS, up 0.1 percentage points from 2021.
Writing: 78.2 per cent of students at or above the NMS, up 0.5 percentage points from 2021.
Spelling:86.6 per cent of students at or above the NMS, up 0.4 percentage points from 2021.
Grammar and pronunciation: 81.7 per cent of students at or above the NMS, down 0.4 percentage points from 2021.
Numeracy: 93.5 per cent of students at or above the NMS, up 0.4 percentage points from 2021.
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