The Hon. David Bartlett, MHA, Minister for Education released the 2006 Reading, Writing and Numeracy Benchmark results for Years 3, 5 and 7 students on behalf of the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) on Friday 1st February, 2008.
This report is part of the commitment of State, Territory and Australian Government Education Ministers to informing the public of progress made towards achieving the National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-first Century.
MCEETYA has been publishing Reading data since 1999 and Writing and Numeracy data since 2000. During this time there has been continuous development of the data reported and improvement in the comparability of data between the States and Territories.
Currently individual State and Territory tests are equated to provide comparable reporting of student achievement data. MCEETYA has now developed its own national tests and from 2008 all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 will sit the same tests.
