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No, minister! Keep NAPLAN results away from student job applications

  • Written by Jessica Holloway, ARC DECRA Research Fellow, Research for Educational Impact (REDI), Deakin University

This year’s NAPLAN results left many questioning the value of the test, as once again there has been little change in numeracy and literacy scores across most age groups.

But Victorian Education Minister James Merlino has proposed a radical solution to make NAPLAN more relevant.

He suggests linking Year 9 NAPLAN results to a performance...

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