NAPLAN results

[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.

[Turkish Delight]

I have not seen NAPLAN results ever,so really can't comment but if it's out of 6, highest being a band 6, then i think that the acceptable range should have been a 3.

Why base questions on stuff which they haven't learned yet though? Or were the kids meant to be taught the subject at school, but the teachers didn't get around to it??

Who knows what they teach in school these days... maye be that the muslims hate the jews and vice versa. I hope that was a question asked in the NAPLAN, if my son got taught that.

[Trillian]

LOL TD

I'm only assuming thats what they did, otherwise there would at least be a small percentage that would have gotten those ones right. I know there is a spelling assessment that my DS did at the start of the year that has 100 words on it and they are asked to spell the words as they are read out in a test and I spoke to DS's teacher about something else and this spelling test came up during the discussion and she explained that only yr 6 children and higher are able to spell the hardest words and the test relies on a sliding scale - so in yr 3 they were only expected to get around 50% on this test, but when the same test is repeated over the next few years all children should be getting 100%. On the test my DS got 64% so that put him well above the 'expected' result for the yr 3 students etc. You are encouraged to speak with your child's teacher to talk about the results and I was going to ask about that particular point. Plus TD, with you being in a different state, maybe there were some children in VIC who did get those questions right that the NSW kids didn't depending on when they were taught it in the classroom kwim?

[Anila]

My DD is in grade 3 in QLD and did the Naplan testing earlier this year, we havent got the resuts back yet, and tbh, i didnt even know that the parents got a copy.

I will be interested in seeing what her results were.