Education

Commentary
• Tasmania improved on its 2012 mean score results in
Year 7 by 1.8 points.
• For the percentage of students at or above national
minimum standard, Year 3 improved on its 2012 result
by 1.6% and Year 7 by 1.4%.
• During the period 2008 to 2013, Tasmania’s mean
score results for Numeracy at all year levels have
remained statistically comparable.
Explanatory
notes to the
charts
• 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.
Closing the Gap on Aboriginal Education Outcomes
Performance measure 1,2 Measurement 2009–11
(3 year average)
Indigenous equity
2011 2012
Percentage gap in Indigenous students
8.3% 7.9% 7.3%
achieving expected outcomes 1,2
In terms of a national comparison, Tasmania has the smallest differences in mean score results between Aboriginal
and non-Aboriginal students for all tests and year levels in NAPLAN. On average, the gap between Aboriginal and
non-Aboriginal students in Tasmania is less than half of the national figure.
1. This measure is the average percentage point gap between non-Indigenous and Indigenous students in achievement of expected standards in
Reading and Numeracy tests for Years 3, 5, 7 and 9.
2. A smaller value denotes greater equity.
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