NAPLAN - Key features of a tailored test

• Students in Years 3 and 5 will be doing NAPLAN. NAPLAN is an online test. One of the main features of NAPLAN is that it is a tailored (or adaptive) test.
• This means that students receive questions better suited to their abilities, so they can demonstrate what they know and can do.
• Tailored tests provide more precise results. Trials of the tailored test design also show students are more engaged with tests that adapt to their test performance.
• Students should not be concerned if they think that the questions are more difficult than expected or they have previously experienced – this may simply mean that they are taking a more challenging but more appropriate pathway.
• This tailored testing approach means that a wider range of student abilities can be tested (compared with the paper approach, where all students answerexactly the samequestions).
• This video explains how tailored testing works. Further information about tailored testing is on the NAP website.

Alice Cowan-Dillon
Head of Department - Curriculum