The year group falling behind the rest of Australia
Western Australia’s 9th year students recorded the best results of the country in this year’s Naplan tests, but the third year students were critically shortened.
The Australian Curriculum and Standards Authority has released new data late on Tuesday evening and showed that almost half of the 3rd grade students in WA did not meet the standards of grammar and punctuation.
In order to meet the competence, students need to get points in the first two naplan group.
For reading, approximately 38 percent of WA 3 did not meet the qualification standards-to record the lowest third scores, just a little in front of Tazmania-about 41 percent of “developing” or “need additional support” groups.
Approximately 71 percent of students in each test area reach competence.
The results also showed that students living in the far remote areas of the state have fallen significantly behind all other demographies – almost 64 percent are below adequacy in all test areas and only 0.7 percent in the “exceeding” category.
Education Minister Sabine Winton praised all WA students, especially for their excellent scores for the 9s.
However, even though the results are a good progress indicator, it reminded that they are not a descriptive talent factor, although the results are a good progress.
Nationally, the results of the Naplan tests, which were sitting by 1.26 million children in March, show that approximately 33 percent of the students need “additional support” or “developing”.
