This paper discusses student participation and engagement with the National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests – factors that impact the quality and usefulness of the results. It provides the latest trends and highlights important considerations for the interpretation of students’ results and future implementation of NAPLAN.

This report contains student performance and proficiency data on creative thinking and explores the relationship between performance and socioeconomic, geographic and cultural factors. The data shows significant variation between countries and a clear relationship between socioeconomic advantage and creative thinking.

This data brief presents results from the 2023 National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) for each NSW electorate. NAPLAN results are indicators of educational performance for four school years (Years 3, 5, 7 and 9) across five subject domains (spelling, reading, persuasive writing, numeracy, and grammar and punctuation).

This research summary explores the many faces of course completion and non-completion and identifies instances where some non-completions can be considered to be successful outcomes of VET. In a sense, this approach, which uses student enrolment data, broadens the parameters for measuring success.

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a key part of Australia’s National Assessment Program. This report presents the results for Australia as a whole, for the Australian states and territories and for the other groups in PISA 2022.