Hon Sue Ellery asks the Minister for Education about the number of Year 9 students in 2014 who did not achieve band 8 in NAPLAN literacy (reading and writing), a benchmark impacting their ability to obtain a Western Australian Certificate of Education.

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Asked
26 March 2015
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Education

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NATIONAL
ASSESSMENT PROGRAM — LITERACY AND NUMERACY — YEAR 9
357. 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 or numeracy in the year 9 National
Assessment Program — Literacy and Numeracy test to do the Online
Literacy and Numeracy Assessment—OLNA—in subsequent years to
achieve a Western Australian Certificate of Education. How many students did
not achieve band 8 in the year 9 NAPLAN literacy areas in 2014?

AnswerView source ↗

I thank the honourable member for some notice of the
question.
In writing it was 18 123 and in reading it was 15 329.

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