2023 NAPLAN Results

This year’s NAPLAN results have been sent home to families of the College’s Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 students. On the whole, students are to be congratulated on a strong performance across all literacy and numeracy domains. The timing of the NAPLAN tests moved 3 months earlier this year to March, partly in order to assist teachers in receiving results with more time remaining in the year to address any areas in need of attention.

The measurement scales and reporting time series have been reset, and proficiency standards with 4 levels of achievement for each assessment area at each year level replace the previous numerical NAPLAN bands and national minimum standards. This resetting means that an analysis of the College’s longitudinal trends is limited.

The NAPLAN proficiency standards include 4 proficiency levels for each assessment area at each year level:

• Exceeding: the student’s result exceeds expectations at the time of testing.
• Strong: the student’s result meets challenging but reasonable expectations at the time of testing.
• Developing: the student’s result indicates that they are working towards expectations at the time of testing.
• Needs additional support: the student’s result indicates that they are not achieving the learning outcomes expected at the time of testing. They are likely to need additional support to progress satisfactorily.

Although this metric is new, what the NAPLAN tests assess, however, has not changed. The NAPLAN tests are now more interactive. Not all students sit the same test: rather, the questions that a student progressively answers through the tests alter depending on how well they have answered previous questions, allowing a more fine-tuned gauge of student ability across the spectrum to be made.

Anthony Wentzel
Prefect of Studies - Middle Years