NAPLAN results

[Turkish Delight]

Does anyone have their child's NAPLAN results yet? I don't. And just wondering if it is the slackness of the school as per usual or they really aren't out yet.

I think that's what the test is called. It's nationwide i believe.

[kawazuki]

cody did this last year took about 6 months but could of been slack DS lol always forgets stuff is in his bag.

[*Ali*]

NAPLAN results were only released to schools on friday

[Trillian]

Yeah we don't have ours yet either - I guess they will give them out within a week or two.

[Bathsheba]

um... what's NAPLAN? Is it the standardised tests that they do every 3 years? I think it's 3 years...

[Trillian]

It used the be called the Basic Skills tests that they do in yrs 3, 5, 7 and 9. Now it's called National Assessment Program - Literacy And Numeracy.

[Tinks]

It used to be called the AIMS test here.

[Bathsheba]

I think it still might be called the AIMS here in Victoria. My DD has done it in the past... it's interesting... even though she is only an average student at her school nationally it shows that she is above average... and 2 years ahead of the average for literacy. She's in year 9... I wonder if they do it still?

[Turkish Delight]

No i think it is NAPLAN here in VIC too.

DS sat for his grade 3 test earlier in the year.

Okay the school isn't being slack THIS TIME. I wish they were though, i would've loved getting into them AGAIN!

[Tinks]

It was AIMS in Vic until last year (or the one before). It's defo called NAPLAN now.

[Trillian]

It's all NAPLAN now so it able to be a reflection of the entire country and not state by state.

[Bathsheba]

Ah ok... in confusion i just went to DD's education folder and found the results for an AIMS test... but that was done 2 years ago in year 7. I asked her if she has done a NAPLAN test and she knew what I was talking about and said that she did it weeks ago.

[AliBaby]

I was at school today and in NSw they are getting handed out tomorrow or Wed. Cant remember which day on the board it said but you should def get them this week.

[Trillian]

I just picked Lindsay up off the bus and he has his results today - at a quick glance I can see that he got 3 band 6's (Language conventions are split into Spelling and Grammar and punctuation and both were band 6's), band 5 for Writing and band 4 for Numeracy - which isn't surprising as maths isn't his strongest point. but still exceptionally well and above the national and school average and well above the national and school average for the other ones. I'm really happy with his results so I'm off to have a proper read of it now.

[MamaPan]

YAY for Lindsay!!!!

[saslia]

I was at school today and in NSw they are getting handed out tomorrow or Wed. Cant remember which day on the board it said but you should def get them this week.

I think in WA we get them with the End of Year Reports.

[Turkish Delight]

WTG Lindsay.

The school had said that they'd mail them out when i phoned today Another 2 week wait for them to get their bums into gear.

I can't wait to see DS's results.

[Trillian]

OK, I've had a really good look at them and it's really surprising at the spectrum of ability for this age group. The minimum requirement is that all yr3 students get Band 2 results and I think that's a really low expectation - the Band 2 level is so basic and I would have expected that they would be aiming to have a minimum of Band 3. And also interesting is that in the table of results which show which answers they got right, and the ones they either didn't attempt or got wrong they also have a % figure of how many children in the state got the particular question correct and for the Writing section not one single child got the same 14 questions right. So I assume that those questions may have been a fair bit harder and possibly based on stuff they haven't learnt yet, otherwise there would at least be a few who would have gotten those questions right.