What are you thoughts to online NAPLAN. I think personally it could be quite difficult to successfully work in rural locations. Better assessment - and more precise results. NAPLAN Online uses a tailored test or adaptive design, where the test automatically adapts to a student's performance and asks questions that match the student achievement level, allowing the student to demonstrate their knowledge. This provides teachers and schools with more targeted and detailed information on students' performance on the tests. Tailored testing also provides an opportunity to broaden the scope of the assessments (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2017).
Perhaps the management may need to be thought off, how devastating for a student to loose all their work when an outage occurs; this is a regular occurrence for remote schools inn Queensland.
Naplan being a digital assessment has many advantages if the technical issues could be overcome but Queensland is such a vast State with many small rural schools and also the distance School of the Air Schools. Would digitising the Naplan testing disadvantage those without reliable internet facilities and those students who do not have internet facilities at home and are not well practiced with the use of online activities? A great innovation and a great goal but in this vast state do we have the resources?
Hi It will be interesting to see. For one of my children it will be a reality in a very few short weeks. Her highschool is a pilot school for NAPLAN testing online using their BYOD (an iPad). Will let you know how it goes...
I think personally it could be quite difficult to successfully work in rural locations.
Better assessment - and more precise results. NAPLAN Online uses a tailored test or adaptive design, where the test automatically adapts to a student's performance and asks questions that match the student achievement level, allowing the student to demonstrate their knowledge. This provides teachers and schools with more targeted and detailed information on students' performance on the tests. Tailored testing also provides an opportunity to broaden the scope of the assessments (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2017).
Perhaps the management may need to be thought off, how devastating for a student to loose all their work when an outage occurs; this is a regular occurrence for remote schools inn Queensland.
It will be interesting to see. For one of my children it will be a reality in a very few short weeks. Her highschool is a pilot school for NAPLAN testing online using their BYOD (an iPad).
Will let you know how it goes...