Well last week school students around Australia took their NAPLAN tests. The test was introduced in 2008 as a way to assess students’ numeracy, reading, writing and language convention skills. But it seems that some private and select- entry government schools were using student NAPLAN results as part of enrolment applications to get into schools which according to the Head of NAPLAN Stephen Gneil is “horrendous and a misuse of the assessment”
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Produced By: Thomas Koutis
Featured In Story: Associate Professor of Education Policy Steven Lewis, Australian Catholic University
First aired on The Wire, Wednesday 18 March 2026