Experts say teachers must adopt explicit approaches to teaching numeracy and literacy in primary school to address the results.
Almost one-third of the state’s students are failing to meet new proficiency standards in reading, writing and maths, according to the first data released after a radical overhaul of NAPLAN reporting.
Results in NSW mirror a similar pattern across the country, where one-third of students fell below proficiency standards in literacy and numeracy, scoring in the bottom two bands. Nationally, 9.8 per cent of students across all year levels need additional support, 23 per cent are developing, 50.4 per cent are strong and 15.1 per cent are exceeding.
In NSW, results across literacy and numeracy showed 60 per cent of Indigenous students were assessed as in the developing or needs additional support levels. That figure rises to about 70 per cent for Indigenous students in year 7 and 9. For NSW students in remote schools, two-thirds of students were in the lower two bands in literacy and numeracy, and in outer regional schools almost half of pupils scored in those two bands.
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