What Are The Pros And Cons Of National Assessment Program Literacy

National Assessment program literacy and numeracy were introduced in 2008. It is the test of skills that are essential for every child in their school and life. The test Check the skills of a child in reading, Writing, Spelling, Grammar, Function and numeracy. The exam held every year in the second week of may. Around 1.1 million students of grade 3,5,7 and 9 participate every year in national assessment program literacy and numeracy.

There are a lot of benefit to All Australian school from the outcome of national testing. School obtains detailed information how they are performing and they can identify their weakness where they can pay more attention in future and make their school education better. Because of NAPLAN test, the positive competition between school is emerging which motivate student and school to do hard work for shine their school name in Australia. Because of National Assessment program literacy and numeracy test school also can ensure that their all student are learning useful skills in their school time.

57% of school principles believe that NAPLAN has a negative impact on year 3 and 5 curriculums. This figure is increased in remote school around 64%. 44% says that they have to spend more time in school to tech literacy and numeracy each week to grade 3 and 5. More than half principle saying that they spend less time on another curriculum during the lead-up period. Furthermore, the school reported that they have to spend 1-10 weeks in preparing a student for NAPLAN test. 10 weeks in a year mean one-quarter of a school year. NAPLAN test result effect on school reputation and their future funding. Parents choose a school on the level of result in National Assessment program test which shown on My school website. (Beliner and niclos 2007) (WU and Hornsby