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The performative politics of NAPLAN and Myschool
From the moment Australia’s newly elected Labor government announced in 2008 its intention to introduce a national assessment scheme for Australian schools, and to publish the results of these assessments on a public website, it courted controversy. The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) and the MySchool website were introduced as part of the new government’s ‘transparency agenda’ and have been widely discussed and debated. NAPLAN is seen not only as an assessment of students, but also of the schools they attend. On the MySchool website, all of Australia’s nearly 10,000 government and non-government schools that receive government funding are required to present a range of information, including their NAPLAN results. The results are displayed in a comparative format, against the results of 59 other similar schools, as well as against its own past performance. Only selective special purpose schools are exempt from reporting their NAPLAN results.
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National testing in schools: an Australian assessmentChapter number
3Pagination
30 - 43Publisher
RoutledgePlace of publication
Abingdon, Eng.Publisher DOI
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9781317333678Language
engPublication classification
B1 Book chapter; B Book chapterCopyright notice
2016, The EditorsExtent
16Editor/Contributor(s)
B Lingard, G Thompson, S SellarUsage metrics
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