Authors

Sean Gorman

Document Type

Report

Publisher

Edith Cowan University

Place of Publication

Perth, Western Australia

School

The Centre for Indigenous Australian Knowledges

Comments

Gorman, S. (2006). Aboriginal students and the Western Australian literacy and numeracy assessment. Perth, Australia: Edith Cowan University.

Abstract

Since the introduction of standardised testing in Western Australia with the Western Australian Literacy and Numeracy Assessment (WALNA) it has become quite evident that Indigenous students' performance is well below that of non-Indigenous students.

As WALNA is now very much a part of the pedagogical landscape steps must be taken to ensure that those students who are not reaching the benchmark scores or the MSE requirements do progress...

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