This report presents NAPLAN results by gender, Indigenous status, language background other than English status, parental occupation, parental education, and location (metropolitan, provincial, remote and very remote) at each year level and for each domain of the test. The National Assessment Program—Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests are conducted in May each year for all students...

The extant findings of the 2006 Adult Literacy and Lifeskills survey are examined and some further quantitative analysis is undertaken to clarify the numeracy skills of New Zealand women. Fundamental questions are raised about both the design of the ALL survey and the relevance of the numeracy assessment questions used in the survey for investigating...

The National Assessment Program—Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests are conducted in May each year for all students across Australia in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. All students in the same year level are assessed on the same test items in the assessment domains of Reading, Writing, Language Conventions (Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation) and Numeracy...

This chapter from the K cohort of Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, examines the numeracy skills demonstrated by children at different ages, and whether levels of numeracy skills vary for children from different socio-demographic backgrounds. The socio-demographic groups examined in this chapter are categorised by: child gender; socio-economic characteristics: –...

This audit assessed how effectively the National Partnership Agreement on Literacy and Numeracy has been administered.