Education

Commentary
• Tasmania improved on its 2012 mean score results
for Reading in both Year 5 and Year 9 (4.6 and
5.3 points respectively).
• Tasmania’s best results for 2013 were in Years 3, 5,
7 and 9 Reading where mean scores were within
6 points (or less than one question on the test)
of the Australian figures.
• For the percentage of students at or above national
minimum standard, Tasmania also improved on its
2012 results in every year level. The improvements
ranged from 0.1% (Year 7) to 4.7% (Year 5).
• Together, these achievements indicate that Reading
continues to be an area of strength for Tasmania.
Explanatory
notes to the
charts
• Literacy performance is represented by
achievement on the Reading tests, because
Reading is generally considered the most reliable
measure of overall literacy achievement.
• All figures are inclusive of government and
non-government schools.
• The percentages of students represented have
been rounded and may not sum to 100.
• Exempt students were counted as assessed,
are deemed not to have met the national minimum
standard and are included in the result for each
test at jurisdictional and national levels. They are
not included in school level calculations for mean
scores and the percentages of students below
national minimum standard, but are reported.
• These measures have been sourced from the
national website for NAPLAN –
http://www.nap.edu.au/naplan/naplan.html
• The 2011 and 2012 measures are taken from the
Stage 2 release of those results.
• The 2013 measures are taken from the Stage 1
(preliminary) release of the 2013 results. Some minor
changes can occur between the Stage 1 and Stage 2
reporting due to be released in December 2013.
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