Children being worried sick by testing

  • by Tanya Chilcott
  • From: The Courier-Mail

QUEENSLAND children are so anxious over national tests they are wetting the bed and being physically sick, a federal inquiry has been warned.

Concerns over the exam regime has also prompted a rare public statement from staff at one state school, who described Education Queensland’s “mandate” to lift results by 4 per cent as “unreasonable”.

A raft of concerns about NAPLAN (National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy) has been raised in hundreds of submissions from parents, schools and educators to a federal inquiry, which is examining the administration and reporting of the tests.

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This post was written by Global Village School on July 22, 2010

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