Assessment

We are responsible for the development of the National Assessment Program (NAP), which includes the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), the 3-yearly NAP sample assessments in science literacy, civics and citizenship, and ICT literacy, and the NAP Opt-in assessments in the NAP sample assessment domains.

These assessments test students’ knowledge of what is in the Australian Curriculum and tell us whether our students are developing the essential skills – predominantly literacy and numeracy – they will need in life.

More information about the NAP program is at the NAP website, including: 

Find past NAPLAN paper tests and answers

See the NAPLAN online data extract dictionary.

Read school perspectives on NAPLAN:

  • High progress schools share their approaches.
  • Principals of schools that were recognised as achieving high gain in NAPLAN 2017 shared their stories with us.

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