1. Yr 9 NAPLAN Test

2. NAPLAN stands for: National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy It is the name of a series of tests all students in years 7 and 9 will sit in May. You will do 5 tests: Language Conventions Reading Writing And 2 Numeracy tests

3. Today we are going to practise some of the types of questions that will be in the NAPLAN tests. The following questions are examples from the Numeracy (calculator & non-calculator tests). These tests looks at your maths skills for Number, Measurement, Chance & Data, Space & Structure. Think about and talk about the strategies that help you to answer these questions.

4. Numeracy – Calculator Multiple choice
State mean – 58% Item response analysis – why did students select these responses? What misconceptions are there?
NAPLAN 2010
Yr 9 C17
CSC A 8 B 52 C 34 D 6 M *

5. Numeracy – non-calculator Multiple choice
State mean – 61%
Item response analysis – why did students select these responses? What misconceptions are there?
NAPLAN 2010
Yr 9 N15
CSC A 33 B 54 C 7 D 5 M 1

6. Numeracy – Calculator Fill in the answer
State mean – 26%
Why did students have trouble with this question?
NAPLAN 2010
Yr 9 C23
CSC 81 1 10 M 9

7. Numeracy – non-calculator Fill in the answer
State mean – 26%, 14%
Why did students have trouble
with this question?
NAPLAN 2010
Yr 9 N27 Yr 7 N27
CSCYr 9
CSCYr 7 76 82 1 13 10 M 11 8

8. As well as discussing the right answers, remember to talk about the strategies and the thinking you went through, to help you answer these questions.