Teachers and parents say they are "dismayed" at glitches in the NAPLAN online platform that are causing dropouts for many students during the assessments, raising concerns about the validity of this year's national tests.
"It'll drop out for as long as 30 seconds, it's happening multiple times for some students and the timer doesn't stop, it's not a sound testing condition at all."Other students were unable to log on, lost their work during dropouts or were told to re-sit the writing test a day later, giving them time to consider responses, according to the Australian Education Union.
The NSW Parents and Citizens Federation said it had told ACARA ahead of the tests "that many schools lack adequate IT infrastructure and reliable internet coverage ... and that results of the online and paper tests may not be compared in a statistically valid way, which would make the reported results meaningless".
"The technology and logistics of a national online project of this size are highly complex, involving national testing authorities, states and territories and schools, and the cooperation and assistance of all involved in appreciated." "NESA has received feedback from schools today that testing is going more smoothly than yesterday and we are monitoring this closely."
pallavisinghal Nothing like a HB pencil and some paper!
pallavisinghal Can you just imagine how stressful it would be! So f-ing cruel! What a sh-t idea! Hands up who thought it would work? Idiots! Even disregarding the ‘big picture’ network problems, many schools wi-fi and computer set-ups are way below par, especially public schools.
pallavisinghal What an absolute clusterfk
pallavisinghal As if this was not going to happen
pallavisinghal STEM doing so well in this country as evidenced by this among many other epic failures; testing 'buggy' tech on the kids is a bit low; 'move fast, break things!'
pallavisinghal We really do tech well in this country, don't we. 🤦♀️
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