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National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy(NAPLAN)

Understanding the Student Report



Reporting to parents

The Student Report is provided for all students who undertook the NAPLAN tests. The basic template for this report is the same for all students in Australia.

The Additional Student Report is provided for students in NSW and ACT schools. This report gives you extra information on your child’s performance in the tests.



Reporting to parents

An important feature of the reports is that they show achievement against a single assessment scale that covers 10 achievement bands from Year 3 to Year 9.

This means that as your child does the NAPLAN tests every two years you will be able to compare the results with those from the previous test, and see his or her progress on the scale.

Band 10

Band 1

Band 2

Band 3

Band 4

Band 5

Band 6

Band 7

Band 8

Band 9



Reporting to parentsEach Year level Student Report will show 6 of the bands.

• Year 9 reports will show bands 5 to 10




Band 10

Band 9

Band 8

Band 7

Band 1

Band 6

Band 5

Band 4

Band 3

Band 2

Year 3

Year 5

Year 7

Year 9

Band 3

Band 4

Band 5

Band 6

Band 4

Band 5

Band 6

Band 7

Band 8

Band 5

Band 6

Band 7

Band 8

Band 9



Achievement Bands

Students are below the national minimum standard

Year 3

Band 1

Band 2

Band 3

Band 4

Band 5

Band 6

Band 3

Band 4

Band 5

Band 6

Band 7

Band 8

Year 5 Year 7 Year 9

Band 4

Band 5

Band 6

Band 7

Band 8

Band 9

Band 5

Band 6

Band 7

Band 8

Band 9

Band 10

Students are at the national minimum standard

Students are above national minimum standard



sample student result

range of achievement of

middle 60% of this Year group

range of bottom 20% for this Year group

above expected range of achievement for this Year

group

below expected range of achievement for this Year group

Bands

national average marker (triangle) for this Year group

range of top 20% for this Year group

This is the front cover of the Student Report.

Your child’s results are on the inside pages of

the report

school average marker (clear triangle) for this Year group



These are names of the test aspects

These circles show the student’s results for each test

These comments describe some of the skills and understandings which

students were asked to demonstrate in the tests.

The Language Conventions test has 2 parts:

• Spelling

• Grammar and Punctuation.



If a student was absent from one of the tests, there will not be a student result marker

shown for that test.

There will be a comment that says ‘Your child was absent

from this test’.

In this example of a student report, the student

was absent from the Numeracy test but present

for the Language Conventions test.

Comments are also included here for students

who were exempt or withdrawn from a

particular test or tests.

Reports for parents are not issued for students who were absent, exempt or

withdrawn from all tests.



The back of the report describes some of the skills assessed in this

year’s tests.

Skills increase in difficulty from

the lower to the higher bands.

The student is likely to have correctly answered questions in the band his or her result falls at, as

well as in the bands below it.



Additional Student Report

The Additional Student Report is provided for students in schools in NSW and ACT schools.

It includes a school average marker for schools where 5 or more students participated in the tests.

It also tells you which questions the student answered correctly and which were incorrect.



The front of the Additional Student Report shows the

same test results as the inside of the Student Report.

The student’s result

The national average for this test and Year (black

triangle)

The school average for this test and Year

(clear triangle)



The inside and back of the Additional report lists the questions in each of

the test aspects.

Questions and criteria increase in difficulty from the bottom of the list

to the top.

The numbers in the centre columns tell you the percentage of students

in your state/territory who answered each question correctly.



The questions that the student answered correctly

are listed on the left.

The questions that the student answered incorrectly or did not attempt are listed on the right.



Codes for multiple choice questions

(a), (b), (c) or (d) indicates which of the incorrect answers was chosen

(*) indicates more than one answer was chosen

(-) indicates the question was not attempted

Codes are used to show the response to questions which a student had incorrect or did not attempt.

The code is shown in brackets at the end of the question descriptor.

The descriptor briefly outlines the skills and understandings being assessed in the question.

Written response questions

Where the answer has to be written for non-multiple choice questions, codes are also used to indicate the most common incorrect responses.



Codes for written response questions

(b) indicates the most common incorrect response(c) indicates the next most common incorrect response (*) indicates another incorrect response. (-) indicates the question was not attempted

Example of scoring written responses

In Year 5, the students had to write the correct spelling of ‘author’. The codes and incorrect responses were:(b) auther(c) orther(*) any other incorrect spelling.

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Documents

year group slide

year group range

better outcomes reporting

year level student report

national minimum standard

educational measurement

additional student report

expected range of achievement