On Tuesday May 14, more than a million year 3 and 5 students across Australia will sit for NAPLAN testing.
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Any parent can vouch, NAPLAN testing has become a stressful exercise for both students, parents and teachers alike.
There's always been standardised testing of various forms but it appears NAPLAN has morphed into something it was never really intended to be.
It was designed in the original format to be something much simpler, a guide to the national literacy and numeracy tests within our schools.
Now we have examples of NAPLAN results being used for competitive entry programs into certain high schools.
This means the pressure on kids to perform to get into high schools of their desire or parents' desire can start as early as age 10.
In the Illawarra, Year 5 NAPLAN results are required to apply for the selective stream of Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts, as well as the "enrichment" classes offered at some public high schools including Woonona and Bulli high schools.
That was never intended as the design for this testing.
For this and other reasons, the system is up for review.
The chorus to look at the system has grown to a groundswell.
The chorus is being led by parents, teachers and two previous NSW education ministers.
"It becomes very much about a school's reputation, so schools become fixated by it," Adrian Piccoli, a former NSW education minister who is now the director of the Gonski Institute for Education at UNSW told the Sydney Morning Herald recently.
The Education Council of the Council of Australian Governments has commissioned a review which is being undertaken by Emeritus Professor Bill Louden AM.
The Gonski Institute for Education is proposing scrapping the national testing in favour of testing sample groups.
Others have proposed alternative solutions.
The likelihood is that it will change and the evidence suggests it needs to change.