2018 Kilbaha NAPLAN Trial Tests available online

• 2018 Kilbaha NAPLAN Trial Tests

• Years 3, 5, 7, 9

• Language, Reading, Writing, Numeracy

• Hard copy for use in paper based tests

• Detailed answers and sample responses

• AVAILABLE NOW FOR PURCHASE AND IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD HERE

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NAPLAN Answers

Detailed answers and responses to all ACARA NAPLAN Tests 2008 -2017

Packages for each of years 3, 5, 7, 9 (Click on the links)

Year 3 - 40 sets (347 pages) - all ACARA NAPLAN Tests

Year 5 - 40 sets (414 pages) - all ACARA NAPLAN Tests

Year 7 - 49 sets (529 pages) - all ACARA NAPLAN Tests

Year 9 - 49 sets (555 pages) - all ACARA NAPLAN Tests

Download the school order form here.

2018 Kilbaha NAPLAN Trial Tests

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. NEW!

The 2018 Kilbaha NAPLAN Trial Tests (Hard Copy) are now available.

Order yours today for immediate delivery.

Download the order form here.

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Bill Healy
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Update NAPLAN Online

Latest from ACARA on NAPLAN Online.

http://www.acara.edu.au/news-and-media/acara-update-archive/acara-update-archive-2018/acara-update-march-2018#4

2018 Kilbaha Catalogue

Download it here to get all the latest information.

http://kilbaha.com.au/kilbaha.pdf

NAPLAN HSC link has been cut

Details here

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/stokes-scraps-controversial-year-9-naplan-policy-20180222-p4z180.html


Personally I think it is pretty reasonable to expect a Year 12 student to have the numeracy and literacy skills of a Year 9 student. Exactly what is the acceptable skill level - Primary School?

NSW NAPLAN Online Newslatter

Download at this link:

https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/student-assessment/naplan-online/media/documents/NAPLAN-Online-newsletter-February-2018.pdf

2018 NAPLAN Catalogue

The 2018 Kilbaha Catalogue is now available for download from the link below.

Download the 2018 Kilbaha Catalogue here.

http://kilbaha.com.au/kilbaha.pdf

Features of the new catalogue.

(1) Searchable by subject
(2) Searchable by year level
(3) 2018 NAPLAN Trial Tests - Hard Copy for Paper Tests
(4) 2018 NAPLAN Trial Tests - Interactive with automatic marking for computer based Tests
(5) All primary and secondary school resources in the one catalogue
(6) Very easy to find the resources you want

NAPLAN Online information and communication technology skills quick reference guide

Read it here.

https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/student-assessment/naplan-online/media/documents/Information-and-communication-technology-skills-quick-reference-guide.pdf

ACARA advice about NAPLAN 2018

NAPLAN 2018 test dates

Schools are reminded that NAPLAN pencil and paper testing will take place from Tuesday15 May to Thursday 17 May 2018. Schools participating in NAPLAN Online will have from Tuesday 15 May to Friday 25 May 2018 to conduct the online assessments.

The tests must be administered in the order, on the dates and within the times specified in the timetables provided in the NAPLAN 2018 Handbook for Principals. Under no circumstances may a test be conducted before the official test date or time. Please note that the test security period has been extended in line with the NAPLAN Online test window and all tests must remain secure until Friday 1 June 2018.

NAPLAN Online

As part of the transition in Victoria, a group of schools will administer NAPLAN as an online test in place of the pencil and paper tests in 2018.All other schools will receive advice early in Term 2 regarding the timing of their transition to NAPLAN Online. Further details regarding associated activities will be provided at this time.

http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Pages/correspondence/bulletins/2018/February/f10asst.aspx?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VCAA+Bulletin+No.+35+%7C+February+2018&utm_content=vcaa.vic.edu.au%2FPages%2Fcorrespondence%2Fbulletins%2F2018%2FFebruary%2Ff10asst.aspx%232&utm_source=www.vision6.com.au#2

Writing Test will be marked by humans in 2018

It has been decided that the 2018 NAPLAN Writing Test will be marked in the same way as previous years.

No marking by computer in 2018.

NAPLAN resources for 2018 at http://kilbaha.com.au

2018 School Year in Australia

Welcome to the 2018 School Year

For all school and student resources relating to NAPLAN go to

http://kilbaha.com.au

Writing is human not robotic?

NAPLAN: 

A controversial move towards "robot marking" of NAPLAN tests has been scrapped, the Education Council has confirmed.

Key points:

·             "Automated essay scoring" will not be used for marking of NAPLAN writing scripts

·             The national assessment authority ACARA had strongly argued for robot marking, insisting it was as reliable as humans

·             A prominent US academic had called for a halt to the plans, saying robot marking would reward "verbose gibberish"

English tasks were to be marked by computers this year, but the proposal caused rancour among teachers' unions who launched a campaign against it.

Now, the Education Council, which is comprised of all state and territory education ministers, has announced the move towards automated essay scoring will be halted.

The decision was made in December but has only just been revealed in a statement from the council.

"In December 2017, the Education Council determined that automated essay scoring will not be used for the marking of NAPLAN writing scripts," said South Australian Education Minister Susan Close, who is the Education Council's chair.

"Any change to this position in the future will be informed by further research into automated essay scoring, and be made as a decision of the Education Council."

The announcement is a blow to the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), which had strongly argued for robot marking, insisting it was as reliable as humans for narrative and persuasive writings tasks.

The NSW Teachers Federation last year commissioned a report from a prominent US expert on automated essay scoring.

Retired professor Les Perelman said computers would reward "verbose gibberish" and could not properly assess creativity, poetry, irony or other more artistic uses of writing.

NSW Education Minister Rob Stokes last year described automated essay scoring as "a direct attack on the teaching profession" and warned it had "no place" in NSW schools.

Before the Education Council's announcement, ACARA had aimed to have fully automated marking and testing of NAPLAN English tasks by 2020.

The scrapping of robot marking comes as schools are transitioning away from pen-and-paper NAPLAN tests towards online tests.

That process has been difficult, with many schools lacking the technical infrastructure to support it.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-29/push-to-have-robots-mark-naplan-tests-scrapped/9370318

Welcome to the 2018 School Year

Everything relating to NAPLAN 2018  will be posted on this site.

Come back often.

More information can be obtained at http://kilbaha.com.au

If you have a particular question, email Bill Healy - kilbaha@gmail.com

2017 ACARA NAPLAN Tests - Detailed answers

Now available at the link below.

http://kilbaha.com.au/2016-ACARA-NAPLAN-Tests-Detailed-answers/2017-NAPLAN-Answers

ACARA NAPLAN 2017 Final Report

http://www.acara.edu.au/news-and-media/acara-update-archive/acara-update-archive-2017/acara-update-december-2017#1

ACARA NAPLAN Online mini-tests - detailed answers

Available at the link below for purchase and immediate download

http://kilbaha.com.au/ACARA-NAPLAN-Online-Minitests-Detailed-Answers

Download the school order form here.

2018 NAPLAN Paper Test Timetable

Detailed answers to the 2017 May NAPLAN Tests

The detailed answers to the 2017 ACARA May NAPLAN Tests for Numeracy are now available on the Kilbaha Website.

Click here.

NAPLAN: National online testing trial gains positive reviews as unions complain

By education reporter Natasha Robinson

Updated Tue 22 Aug 2017, 7:56am

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-22/national-trial-of-online-naplan-testing/8827600

Hundreds of schools around the country have begun trialling online literacy and numeracy tests for the first time after mass upgrades of IT systems.

The first students to sit the new trial NAPLAN tests have reported big differences in the way the testing takes place, with questions now tailored to the ability of the individual student and keyboard skills coming into play.

"There were definitely some ways where it was easier," said Taghe Nolan, a year five student at Middle Harbour Primary

School on Sydney's north shore, after sitting a trial NAPLAN writing test.

"You didn't need to scroll through a whole heap of paper and you had quite a lot of room to write everything that you wanted to.

"And being challenged makes you feel really good inside, like you're trying your hardest."

The online trials are being completed by about 500 schools this week in NSW, and more than 3,500 schools across the country will participate in coming weeks. The NSW Education Department said the online tests are designed to identify any problems with IT infrastructure and ensure that schools are adequately equipped to run the digital tests.

The executive director of NSW's Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation, Jenny Donovan, said schools were polled prior to the online trials to find out how many laptops they had available and the capacity of their online connectivity.

"We felt fairly confident that with a little bit of additional machinery that was made available from the department that most schools would be ready, and so far that seems to be the case," Ms Donovan said.

"As we scale up the readiness testing effort, we'll find out more and more about what schools' issues may be.

"We've been polling teachers and students as we go, and students in particular are coming back to us saying they thoroughly enjoyed the experience, that they much prefer doing a test in an online environment."

Online system only benefits privileged schools: unions

But unions are heavily criticising the planned online rollout.

They hold concerns about ageing IT infrastructure in schools and say the online tests will advantage more privilegedschools.

The Australian Education Union's federal president Correna Haythorpe said teachers had raised significant concerns.

"Teachers and principals in our schools have told us that they are not ready to move to NAPLAN online," Ms Haythorpe said.

"We have resolved to oppose the implementation of this test and to seek urgent meetings with education ministers around the country to share those concerns."

The NSW Teacher's Federation has opened a hotline for teachers to give feedback on the online trials, which it says has been inundated with overwhelmingly negative reviews.

"We feel we and our students have been set for failure and forgotten," one teacher said.

"Confusing and concerning," was the assessment of another. "Staff are worried about timeframes, the lack of bandwidth and the ageing technology."

The NSW Education Department's polling shows that students are embracing the new digital tests.

In 12,500 responses from students within the first week of the school readiness testing, 78 per cent of students said they liked using a computer or tablet to carry out the NAPLAN tests, and 15 per cent said they didn't.

At Middle Harbour Public School, year five students encountered minor technical glitches as they completed a trial online test in writing.

Some of the provided headphones did not work and a few students had trouble connecting their laptops to the school's Wi-Fi and to the NAPLAN server.

Assistant principal Catherine Thompson said overall the testing had been successful.

"We're going to get a lot more data back to teachers, hopefully, that can really inform our teaching," Ms Thompson said.

The big difference in the new testing is that the online tests are tailored to a students' performance. If they answer questions correctly within a shorter timeframe, more challenging questions are presented. The inverse also occurs. In marking, more difficult questions are given a weighting against easier questions.

Schools will also receive the results of the test back within weeks, as opposed to months with the old paper tests, meaning that they can use the results to tailor their lessons and support for students.

For students at Middle Harbour, the upsides outweighed the negatives.

"There was definitely some benefits — the neatness of it was good," 11-year-old Alex Smith said. "If you weren't as neat there was no worrying about the markers not being able to read your answers. "But if you don't know how to touch-type you're looking up at the time and you're thinking 'I might not have enough time because you can't write as fast'."

First posted Tue 22 Aug 2017, 5:42am