New: Detailed answers to the May 2013 ACARA NAPLAN Tests - Years 3, 5, 7, 9. Language conventions, Reading, Writing, Numeracy. Buy online here or download the order form here.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Monday, September 16, 2013
May 2013 NAPLAN Answers
Detailed answers and sample responses to the May 2013 ACARA NAPLAN Tests are available from Kilbaha Multimedia Publishing.
Important Note:
Kilbaha Multimedia Publishing is not permitted to supply the May 2013 NAPLAN questions. These are copyright ACARA. Schools that have kept copies of the May 2013 NAPLAN tests will find these detailed answers very useful. Full explanations of answers are provided. A sample writing response for each level (3, 5, 7, 9) is also provided.
Download the order form here or purchase online here.
Important Note:
Kilbaha Multimedia Publishing is not permitted to supply the May 2013 NAPLAN questions. These are copyright ACARA. Schools that have kept copies of the May 2013 NAPLAN tests will find these detailed answers very useful. Full explanations of answers are provided. A sample writing response for each level (3, 5, 7, 9) is also provided.
Download the order form here or purchase online here.
2013 NAPLAN Summary Report 2
The Summary Report provides
nationally comparable data for the 2013 national and state/territory
results for each year level (3, 5, 7 and 9) and for each test domain
(reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation, and numeracy). It
also gives comparisons of national and state/territory achievement in
each year and test domain between 2008 (2011 for persuasive writing) to
2013 and 2012 to 2013.
Key findings from the 2013 Summary Report include:
Read or download the 2013 NAPLAN Summary Report on the National Assessment Program website. The detailed answers to the 2013 May NAPLAN Tests are available from Kilbaha Multimedia Publishing. Download the order form here or purchase online here. |
2013 NAPLAN Summary Report 1
Stable student achievement and encouraging signs of improvement
ACARA published the 2013 NAPLAN Summary Report on Friday 13 September.
Read or download the 2013 NAPLAN Summary Report on the National Assessment Program website.The Summary Report provides nationally comparable data for the 2013 national and state/territory results for each year level (3, 5, 7 and 9) and for each test domain (reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation, and numeracy). It also gives comparisons of national and state/territory achievement in each year and test domain between 2008 to 2013 and 2012 to 2013. Robert Randall, Chief Executive Officer of ACARA said, “These results give a crucial first look at how our students performed in this year’s NAPLAN assessments, which are an important tool to help improve student learning. I am pleased with the identified increased in performance in Year 5 reading.” “While participation rates remain very high, I am concerned by any reports of withdrawals.” Professor Barry McGaw AO, Chairman of ACARA added, “I encourage all parents to have their child participate in NAPLAN to ensure that they are provided with the opportunity to understand their child’s performance at school relevant to their peers. If children don’t participate, parents miss out on information that will benefit your child in subsequent years (as some schools may use the data to target areas for improvement) and will have a direct benefit on your child’s own experience and learning by contributing to their school’s ability to improve literacy and numeracy teaching.” |
Friday, September 6, 2013
Your help needed.
Sign this petition to help a man get access to a drug to potentially cure his melanoma.
https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/merck-bms-save-locky-s-dad-provide-nick-auden-access-to-the-pd1-drug-on-a-compassionate-basis
https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/merck-bms-save-locky-s-dad-provide-nick-auden-access-to-the-pd1-drug-on-a-compassionate-basis
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Support the Tecoma protest against Maccas
Should primary school children be protected from the influence of corporate giants like Maccas?
Enjoy the Flash Mob singalong.
Enjoy the Flash Mob singalong.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Welcome back
Welcome back to all our readers and subscribers. Kilbaha Multimedia Publishing has produced detailed answers to the May 2013 ACARA NAPLAN Tests.
New: Detailed answers to the May 2013 ACARA NAPLAN Tests - Years 3, 5, 7, 9. Language conventions, Reading, Writing, Numeracy. Buy online here or download the order form here.
New: Detailed answers to the May 2013 ACARA NAPLAN Tests - Years 3, 5, 7, 9. Language conventions, Reading, Writing, Numeracy. Buy online here or download the order form here.
Friday, July 5, 2013
Support the education of girls worldwide
Hi everyone.
I just signed the petition " Stand with Malala: End the Education Emergency " on Change.org.
It's important. Will you sign it too? Here's the link:
http://www.change.org/en-AU/
Thanks!
Bill Healy
I just signed the petition " Stand with Malala: End the Education Emergency " on Change.org.
It's important. Will you sign it too? Here's the link:
http://www.change.org/en-AU/
Thanks!
Bill Healy
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Offer extended due to demand
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
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Friday, June 28, 2013
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Australian Curriculum Mathematics - Year 10
Download free sample questions for the Australian Curriculum
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Australian Curriculum Mathematics - Year 9
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Australian Curriculum Mathematics - Year 8
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
It's getting near the end of term, let's have some fun
My thanks to Rex Boggs for this list (original source unknown).
Treat your friends to one of these today to get a smile.
Puns for slightly above average people
1. The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian .
3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption.
5. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
9. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
11. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
12. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other: 'You stay here; I'll go on a head.'
13. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
14. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.'
15. The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
16. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
17. A backward poet writes inverse.
18. In a democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.
19. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.
20. If you jumped off the bridge in Paris, you'd be in Seine .
21. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, 'I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.'
22. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says 'Dam!'
23. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.
24. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, 'I've lost my electron.' The other says 'Are you sure?' The first replies, 'Yes, I'm positive.'
25. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.
And finally ...
26. There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.
Treat your friends to one of these today to get a smile.
Puns for slightly above average people
1. The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian .
3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption.
5. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
9. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
11. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
12. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other: 'You stay here; I'll go on a head.'
13. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
14. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.'
15. The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
16. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
17. A backward poet writes inverse.
18. In a democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.
19. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.
20. If you jumped off the bridge in Paris, you'd be in Seine .
21. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, 'I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.'
22. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says 'Dam!'
23. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.
24. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, 'I've lost my electron.' The other says 'Are you sure?' The first replies, 'Yes, I'm positive.'
25. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.
And finally ...
26. There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
The future of NAPLAN
The following article appeared in The Australian Newspaper on 1 June, 2013.
A test to suit the 21st century
NAPLAN has a 25-year history of development and refinement but major changes are in view.
The origins of NAPLAN lie in the NSW Basic Skills Testing Program introduced in 1989 and the other state and territory programs that followed by the mid-90s. All tested students in literacy and numeracy and reported to parents as well as schools. The council of education ministers then sought a national picture of students' achievements from the separate state and territory results. This was done, more or less effectively, until the council of ministers -- when Brendan Nelson was federal minister -- launched an investigation into the alternative of all states and territories using the same tests.
The report was received in early 2007, when Julie Bishop was the federal education minister, and the
council decided to create the National Assessment Program: Literacy and Numeracy. The first NAPLAN tests were developed and trialled during 2007, and then used in 2008 when Julia Gillard was the federal minister. She drove the program forward and also ensured, through the My School website, that parents saw results for their schools as well as their own children.
The new NAPLAN tests for 2008 were based on an amalgam of the states' and territories' existing test
frameworks. A new framework can now be developed, based on the new curriculum for English and
mathematics and its general capabilities in literacy and numeracy. This will provide a richer framework than the current one. If science is added, then its test framework will be based on the new science curriculum. Another major change being planned is to switch from paper and pen to electronic delivery. The council of education ministers has set a target of 2016 for this change.
Electronic delivery will bring major benefits. It will allow quicker turnaround of results and give schools a better opportunity to use the information diagnostically. Most importantly, it will enable us to target tests more appropriately to students. Our plan is for all students in a year level to take the same first third of the test. The computer will score responses as the students go and, on the basis of their performance, move them on to either more or less difficult tasks for the next third. For the final third, students doing very well will move on to challenging tasks while those struggling will move to relatively easy, diagnostic tasks. There will be one or two sets of tasks with difficulties between these two sets to which other students would move. Having students do different tasks will have three major benefits. First, it will enable better measurement of high and low performers than the current single test for all students at a year level can provide. With the current tests, we see growth plateau in secondary school. We cannot tell whether that is due to the current test not measuring well the higher performances expected at Year 9, secondary schools failing to continue to develop literacy and numeracy skills, or those skills actually reaching a natural plateau. With differentiated tests we will be able to test this empirically. Second, we will achieve more precise measurement for all students by not wasting their time on tasks that are so difficult or so easy for them they provide little information on what students know and are able to do. Third, with students in a school taking differing combinations of tasks, the tests will be less predictable. Indeed, with the tests in all their parts reflecting the overall curriculum, the only appropriate test preparation will be to give students a full, rich curriculum. All students' results can be reported on the same literacy and numeracy scales, even though they will not all be doing the same tasks. A fuller set of tasks will be developed for teachers to download and use when they choose. These tasks will be linked to the national literacy and numeracy scales to enable teachers to monitor and map students' growth during the year. NAPLAN will continue to give parents a report on their children's development that is informed by a bigger picture than that available to individual schools and teachers but teachers will also have a new diagnostic tool to help them organise students' learning. ACARA is currently testing the model of electronic delivery for use in the sample-based survey National Assessment Program (NAP): Civics and Citizenship that is scheduled to be administered to around 7,000 students in each of years 6 and 10 later this year. The next generation of NAPLAN literacy and numeracy tests will transform the monitoring of students' development of these key foundational skills. It will be 21st century assessment for 21st century young people and their families.
Barry McGaw is the chairman of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority.
A test to suit the 21st century | The Australian
THE AUSTRALIAN
BARRY MCGAW THE AUSTRALIAN JUNE 01, 2013
A test to suit the 21st century
NAPLAN has a 25-year history of development and refinement but major changes are in view.
The origins of NAPLAN lie in the NSW Basic Skills Testing Program introduced in 1989 and the other state and territory programs that followed by the mid-90s. All tested students in literacy and numeracy and reported to parents as well as schools. The council of education ministers then sought a national picture of students' achievements from the separate state and territory results. This was done, more or less effectively, until the council of ministers -- when Brendan Nelson was federal minister -- launched an investigation into the alternative of all states and territories using the same tests.
The report was received in early 2007, when Julie Bishop was the federal education minister, and the
council decided to create the National Assessment Program: Literacy and Numeracy. The first NAPLAN tests were developed and trialled during 2007, and then used in 2008 when Julia Gillard was the federal minister. She drove the program forward and also ensured, through the My School website, that parents saw results for their schools as well as their own children.
The new NAPLAN tests for 2008 were based on an amalgam of the states' and territories' existing test
frameworks. A new framework can now be developed, based on the new curriculum for English and
mathematics and its general capabilities in literacy and numeracy. This will provide a richer framework than the current one. If science is added, then its test framework will be based on the new science curriculum. Another major change being planned is to switch from paper and pen to electronic delivery. The council of education ministers has set a target of 2016 for this change.
Electronic delivery will bring major benefits. It will allow quicker turnaround of results and give schools a better opportunity to use the information diagnostically. Most importantly, it will enable us to target tests more appropriately to students. Our plan is for all students in a year level to take the same first third of the test. The computer will score responses as the students go and, on the basis of their performance, move them on to either more or less difficult tasks for the next third. For the final third, students doing very well will move on to challenging tasks while those struggling will move to relatively easy, diagnostic tasks. There will be one or two sets of tasks with difficulties between these two sets to which other students would move. Having students do different tasks will have three major benefits. First, it will enable better measurement of high and low performers than the current single test for all students at a year level can provide. With the current tests, we see growth plateau in secondary school. We cannot tell whether that is due to the current test not measuring well the higher performances expected at Year 9, secondary schools failing to continue to develop literacy and numeracy skills, or those skills actually reaching a natural plateau. With differentiated tests we will be able to test this empirically. Second, we will achieve more precise measurement for all students by not wasting their time on tasks that are so difficult or so easy for them they provide little information on what students know and are able to do. Third, with students in a school taking differing combinations of tasks, the tests will be less predictable. Indeed, with the tests in all their parts reflecting the overall curriculum, the only appropriate test preparation will be to give students a full, rich curriculum. All students' results can be reported on the same literacy and numeracy scales, even though they will not all be doing the same tasks. A fuller set of tasks will be developed for teachers to download and use when they choose. These tasks will be linked to the national literacy and numeracy scales to enable teachers to monitor and map students' growth during the year. NAPLAN will continue to give parents a report on their children's development that is informed by a bigger picture than that available to individual schools and teachers but teachers will also have a new diagnostic tool to help them organise students' learning. ACARA is currently testing the model of electronic delivery for use in the sample-based survey National Assessment Program (NAP): Civics and Citizenship that is scheduled to be administered to around 7,000 students in each of years 6 and 10 later this year. The next generation of NAPLAN literacy and numeracy tests will transform the monitoring of students' development of these key foundational skills. It will be 21st century assessment for 21st century young people and their families.
Barry McGaw is the chairman of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority.
A test to suit the 21st century | The Australian
THE AUSTRALIAN
BARRY MCGAW THE AUSTRALIAN JUNE 01, 2013
In defence of NAPLAN Part 2
ACARA has made a lengthy submission to the Senate Committee about NAPLAN.
Read the full submission here.
Read the full submission here.
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