Hon Sue Ellery asks the Minister for Education about the number of Year 9 students who did not achieve band 8 in NAPLAN literacy areas in 2016, a benchmark required for WACE attainment via OLNA. The Minister provides the requested figures.

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25 August 2016
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Education

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NATIONAL ASSESSMENT PROGRAM — LITERACY AND
NUMERACY — YEAR 9 LITERACY
802. Hon SUE ELLERY to the Minister for
Education:
I refer to the requirement for
students who do not achieve band 8 or higher in reading, writing and numeracy
in the year 9 National Assessment Program — Literacy and Numeracy test
to do the online literacy and numeracy assessment, OLNA, to achieve a Western Australian
Certificate of Education. How many students did not achieve band 8 in year 9
NAPLAN literacy areas in 2016?

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I thank the honourable member for
some notice of this question.
In the 2016 NAPLAN, 15 381 year 9
students did not achieve band 8 or higher in reading and 19 652 year 9 students
did not achieve band 8 or higher in writing.

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