Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: In May 2008, the National Assessment Program - Literary and Numeracy (NAPLAN) (Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs, MCEETYA, 2008) conducted nation-wide tests for reading, writing, language conventions, and numeracy. A national assessment program of this kind should provide the stimulus for macro-level (systemic) analytical studies and micro-level (individual school and/or class) analytical studies of the data. This paper is concerned with the latter type of study where numeracy results of Year 9 Queensland students are analysed. The paper provides a critique of the Year 9 numeracy test, ways in which students responded to test questions, and how results might inform teaching mathematics.
Source: Griffith Research Online
Author: Stephen John Norton
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2898511012