The performative politics of NAPLAN and Myschool Gorur, Radhika 2016, The performative politics of NAPLAN and Myschool. In Lingard, Bob, Thompson, Greg and Sellar, Sam (ed), National testing in schools: an Australian assessment, Routledge, Abingdon, Eng., pp.30-43, doi: 10.4324/9781315659312. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title The performative politics of NAPLAN and Myschool Author(s) Gorur, Radhika orcid.org/0000-0002-4528-0793 Title of book National testing in schools: an Australian assessment Editor(s) Lingard, Bob Thompson, Greg Sellar, Sam Publication date 2016 Chapter number 3 Total chapters 16 Start page 30 End page 43 Total pages 14 Publisher Routledge Place of Publication Abingdon, Eng. Keyword(s) NAPLAN NAPLAN results MySchool website National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy Summary From the moment Australia’s newly elected Labor government announced in 2008 its intention to introduce a national assessment scheme for Australian schools, and to publish the results of these assessments on a public website, it courted controversy. The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) and the MySchool website were introduced as part of the new government’s ‘transparency agenda’ and have been widely discussed and debated. NAPLAN is seen not only as an assessment of students, but also of the schools they attend. On the MySchool website, all of Australia’s nearly 10,000 government and non-government schools that receive government funding are required to present a range of information, including their NAPLAN results. The results are displayed in a comparative format, against the results of 59 other similar schools, as well as against its own past performance. Only selective special purpose schools are exempt from reporting their NAPLAN results. ISBN 9781317333678 9781138961647 9781138961654 9781315659312 Language eng DOI 10.4324/9781315659312 Field of Research 130199 Education Systems not elsewhere classified 160506 Education Policy Socio Economic Objective 930501 Education and Training Systems Policies and Development HERDC Research category B1 Book chapter ERA Research output type B Book chapter Copyright notice ©2016, The Editors Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30082498 Document type: Book Chapter Collections: School of Education ERA Postprints 2018 ERA Submission Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 31 Mar 2016, 11:26:43 EST Thu, 31 Mar 2016, 11:30:09 EST Fri, 01 Apr 2016, 04:01:14 EST Thu, 25 Aug 2016, 06:07:57 EST Wed, 19 Oct 2016, 09:54:21 EST Wed, 19 Oct 2016, 09:58:50 EST Wed, 19 Oct 2016, 10:00:04 EST Fri, 20 Jan 2017, 13:23:15 EST Sat, 07 Oct 2017, 01:31:57 EST Mon, 09 Apr 2018, 12:02:42 EST Mon, 09 Apr 2018, 12:03:31 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 2 times in TR Web of Science Cited 5 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 370 Abstract Views, 27 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 31 Mar 2016, 11:30:09 EST

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