2009 Annual Report (1MB) - Waverley College

The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN)The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests are conductedin May each year for all students across Australia in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. All students in thesame year level are assessed on the same test items in the assessment domains of Reading,Writing, language Conventions (Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation) and Numeracy.NAPLAN results are reported using five national achievement scales, one for each of theNAPLAN assessment domains of Reading, Writing, Spelling Grammar and Punctuation andNumeracy. Each scale consists of ten bands, which represent the increasing complexity of theskills and understandings assessed by NAPLAN from Years 3 to 9.Six of these bands areused for reporting student performance in each year level.The report shows a comparison ofthe student’s result to the national average for the year. The bottom band indicates a studentis below the national minimum standard, and the second bottom band indicates the student isat the national minimum standard.The results of Waverley students show soundprogress in the areas of literacy and numeracy. Allthree year levels tested showed results at abovestate / national average in Overall Literacy andNumeracy.Details on school performance are provided in thefollowing tables where band distributions andpercentages of students achieving the nationalminimum standard are outlined separately for Year5, Year 7 and Year 9.Year 5 band distributions and % of students at or above national minimum:ReadingWritingSpellingGrammar &PunctuationOverallLiteracyNumeracyBand3 (-) %Band4 %Band5 %Band6 %Band7 %Band8 %Waverley 1 5 24 20 34 16National 6 12 21 21 25 15Waverley 1 2 14 49 22 11National 5 10 21 37 17 10Waverley 1 5 22 33 28 11National 5 11 20 27 24 13Waverley 0 3 11 32 33 21National 7 10 16 28 25 15Waverley 0 2 16 39 30 12National 4 9 22 30 23 11Waverley 1 3 9 27 34 26National 3 14 25 24 19 16Waverley College Annual Report 2009 5