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Update Īn update to the site was expected in December 2010, however its roll-out was delayed until March 2011. It was launched by the then Minister for Education, Julia Gillard. "My hope is we'll have an agreement for better presentation of the data in December.The website went live at 1:00 am on 28 January 2010, but later in the morning the website became unavailable due to extremely high demand. "That is a part of NAPLAN we all agree needs to be looked at," he said. "Ĭhanges to MySchool would alleviate this, he said, and were welcomed by Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan. "It's the school comparisons issue I think that is causing the most angst amongst principals and schools leaders, resulting in some of the high-stakes nature of the test and perhaps having some unintended consequences in terms of pedagogy. Mr de Carvalho said NAPLAN had "become this bogeyman and a catch-all for all kind of discontents, but we need to distinguish the NAPLAN test itself from the issue … of why it has become such high stakes compared to the standardised testing that was done prior to that. "And secondly, we have to focus more on student gain, what the school is actually doing to improve students' results, as opposed to simply comparing the overall levels of achievement between statistically similar schools."
