Well, duh. But, it’s NAPLAN season, and we have been asked to post a ballpark question, so what the hell.
As it happens, there is a non-NAPLAN ACARA post that we’re desperately looking to get out; it is easy but it would require more than the three minutes we have to spare. Then there was a tempting Age article this morning, with Honest Steve front and centre whining about private and/or select entry schools requiring applicants to provide their NAPLAN scores. Fair enough, except what the hell do you expect to happen? And whining ain’t gonna help. And it ain’t just private/select schools. Nitwit.
Anyway, no time for any of that, so on with the question. Frequent commenter Terry Mills has asked:
I am keen to know whether your correspondents find NAPLAN a major disruption to their school program.
So, have at it. For us, it is back to the salt mine.
Yes.
Apparently NAPLAN is a nationwide disruption to the school program today.
Is it wrong to find this amusing?
Possibly, but it’s not stopping me.
Is there any evaluation at all of its effects (which are pretty broad ranging)?
Great start today
This is an interesting book – from US point of view. Daniel Koretz, “The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better”
What does it tell me that I don’t know?
I don’t know what you don’t know. However, I enjoyed reading the book.
I’ll enjoy not reading it.
You know, as soon as I saw the news about the disruptions I thought, how delicious!
Too, too delicious for words… and I taught what is, laughably now, called ’English’.