The emphasis on monitoring student educational outcomes Australia-wide through state-wide testing has generated a wealth of data which has enabled systems to monitor the extent of educational inequities experienced by Indigenous students. Despite some improvements over time, national schools statistics point to a continuing gap in the average English literacy and numeracy achievement of Indigenous...

This report reviews the international and Australian research literature on numeracy in early childhood that complements the Department of Education, Science and Training's major review of the numeracy literature being undertaken by Deakin University. While this major review is designed to 'map the territory' in numeracy, this report is designed to provide early childhood professionals...

A new study of test scores achieved by Australian 14-year-olds in reading comprehension and mathematics between 1975 and 1998 has revealed growing differences between Australian schools along socioeconomic lines. The report examines student achievement scores on tests of reading comprehension and mathematics from five studies that tested the literacy and numeracy levels of young people...

This report sets out to clarify what has been meant by 'numeracy' in the past, as well as more recently, in order to better understand how numeracy teaching and learning can be improved in Australian classrooms. Defining numeracy inevitably assists understanding of what kinds of research may improve numeracy teaching and learning in our classrooms.