NAPLAN 2024 National Results Released
The NAPLAN National Results, released today, show the Tasmanian Government’s commitment to improving literacy and numeracy outcomes is starting to pay off.
The NAPLAN 2024 test was successfully delivered to around 26,000 Tasmanian students across all educational sectors in Term 1, 2024.
NAPLAN provides a national measure to support all Tasmanian schools in understanding student progress in their learning and identify areas for system, school and classroom focus.
Tasmania’s NAPLAN 2024 results were statistically comparable to 2023 in every year level. In reading, Tasmania’s results matched those of the Australian national average.
Minister for Education, Jo Palmer, said while the results were promising, it’s important not to rely on NAPLAN data as the only benchmark for learning.
“While NAPLAN is useful in providing a big picture snapshot of educational progress in literacy and numeracy, it has limited capacity to provide insight into individual student educational progress and development,” Minister Palmer said.
“This year’s national results are pleasing, but we know there is still more work to be done, particularly in supporting students identified in the ‘Needs additional support’ category.
“We want to identify those learners as early as possible and make sure they have the support they need, which is why schools use additional assessments, including Progressive Achievement Tests across Prep to Year 10, to monitor reading and mathematics progress.”
The Tasmanian Government is taking a comprehensive approach to lifting literacy in our state, so that every young person, as far as is possible, can read when they leave our school system.
As part of our 2030 Strong Plan for Tasmania’s Future, we’re delivering evidence based structured literacy in 25 per cent of all Government primary schools in 2024, increasing to 100 per cent by 2026.
Schools are being supported to make transformational change to the way children are taught to read through professional learning sessions, resources and collaboration with educational experts and sectors.
By 2026, all students across all school years will be taught to read in a structured, systematic, and explicit way, within a framework that ensures every student gets appropriate additional literacy support when they need it.
Teachers and leaders are being supported to embed a system-wide, focused effort to improve numeracy outcomes through specific and targeted curriculum resources for teaching and assessment of mathematics.
The Department of Education and Children and Young People’s Numeracy Framework and five-point Numeracy Plan for Action 2021-2025 both have a clear focus on the teaching and learning of mathematics, so learners can continue to improve their numeracy knowledge and skills to set them up for a bright future.
