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State makes grade
in NAPLAN test
The final report of the NAPLAN schools results for 2011 revealed Queensland had improved its national ranking from sixth to fifth overall.
Minister for Education, Cameron Dick said the report showed continuing improvement in the literacy and numeracy tests and confirmed the State was on the right track.
He said it provided further encouragement for Queensland schools.
“This report confirms what we already know: that Queensland is continuing to improve in the NAPLAN tests and that we’re narrowing the gap with the leading States,” Mr Dick said.
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“We have improved from sixth to fifth our ranking for the percentage of children who achieved at or above the national minimum standard, showing that we are heading in the right direction.”
He said Year 3 students were the standout performers of 2011, improving in all five test areas and posting the State’s best result for any year level in numeracy.
“This result shows our investment in the Prep year is starting to generate real gains in student performance,” Mr Dick said.
“Overall since 2008, Queensland has shown improvement in 19 of the 20 tests areas against the national standards.”
He said the results were a positive sign for Queensland’s overall education improvement agenda.
“They also show just how hard our principals, teachers and students have worked over the past few years so my congratulations go out to them,” he said.
Mr Dick said the NAPLAN 2011 National Report provided a breakdown of results by gender, geographic location, parental education and occupation, Indigenous and language background, and cohort gain.
He said the differences in performance between boys and girls, both in Queensland and nationally, remained similar to previous years.
“On average, our girls have out-performed the boys in reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation,” he said.
“And our boys performed, on average, better than the girls in numeracy.”
Edition 201, 26 January 2012
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