Prepare Your Child For NAPLAN
NAPLAN online course is an annual assessment for students in Years 3, 5, 7, and 9. It basically tests skills that are essential for every child to progress through school and life. With the test results, teachers can tailor each child’s education more effectively.
NAPLAN is moving online. The tests are shifting from paper-based to online assessments. The assessments are undertaken nationwide, every year, in the second full week in May.
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NAPLAN is made up of tests in the four areas of:
Reading
The NAPLAN reading tests focus on the reading content of the Australian Curriculum: English, with the range of text complexity similar to pre-2016 NAPLAN texts.
Numeracy
The numeracy tests measure a student’s mathematical capability in four key areas – understanding, fluency, problem-solving, and reasoning. These are tested across three strands of maths.
number and algebra
measurement and geometry
and statistics and probability
For students in Years 7 and 9, the numeracy tests contain a short non-calculator section of eight questions. They can use calculators for the rest of the test.
Writing
For the writing test, students are asked to write a continuous text. They are given an idea or topic as a prompt and asked to write a response of a specific text type (or genre). The three main genres are:
imaginative – these texts use language to represent and explore human experiences in real and imaginary worlds, and cover sub-genres such as fairy tales, novels, plays, poetry, and illustrated books.
information – these use language to represent ideas and information about people, places, events, and issues, such as reports, biographies, explanations, news articles, and features.
argument – these intentionally present a point of view or seek to persuade their audience, and include arguments, letters to the editor, debates, reviews, and advertisements.
Students in Years 3 and 5 do one writing task, and those in Years 7 and 9 do a different one.
Language Conventions
These tests cover key areas of literacy, including spelling, grammar, and punctuation, that is essential for good reading and writing. These tests go hand-in-hand with the writing task, where spelling, grammar, and punctuation are assessed in the context of a student’s creation of text.
Please visit the NAP website for the latest and detailed information about NAPLAN Online. The NAP website includes:
access to the public demonstration site
resources and FAQs for parents, students, and schools.
The principles require NAPLAN online course assessment to:
support quality teaching and learning
deliver better national and assessment information
broaden the curriculum coverage of assessments.
This followed education ministers’ previous commitment to trial an online platform for National Assessment Program – Civics and Citizenship (NAP–CC) in 2013.
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