One in three school students throughout Australia are not meeting minimum numeracy and literacy expectations, and one in ten are so far behind they need additional support, new NAPLAN data shows.
Ten per cent of students have been assessed as needing additional numeracy and literacy support to meet expected standardsThe 2023 results — assessed under a tougher, revamped set of criteria — also show Indigenous, rural and lower socio-economic students lagged behind their peers.
Federal Education Minister Jason Clare said the new standards better reflected the true picture in Australian classrooms.The new NAPLAN standards "We have raised the minimum standard students are now expected to meet, so we can really identify the students who need additional support [and] provide them with that support.""We can't accept that children who fall behind when they're eight years old are going to stay behind for the rest of their lives.Glenn Fahey, director of education at the Centre for Independent Studies, said changing the system was "a necessary evil".
Girls outperformed boys in literacy, achieving average scores above boys in every year group, while boys generally outperformed girls in numeracy.About a third of Indigenous students 'need additional support', compared to the overall ten per cent "We do need to improve on that track record or else poor achievement at the start of schooling is going to determine poor achievement throughout all years of schooling," Mr Fahey said.
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