NAPLAN 2023

NATIONAL ASSESSMENT PROGRAM LITERACY AND NUMERACY 2023

The Office of the Education Registrar facilitates the voluntary participation of home educated students in the NAPLAN assessment program.

If you would like your home educated student/s to participate in these assessments in 2023, you are invited to register with our Office so that we can provide you with the NAPLAN test papers relevant to your child’s age (see table below).

Table 1: Eligibility Requirements

Please find below information provided to us from the Australian Government in relation to the NAPLAN program:

In 2008, the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) commenced in Australian schools. The program continues in 2023 with all children in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 or ages appropriate to these years (see Table 1) being assessed using common national tests in Reading, Writing, Language Conventions (spelling, grammar and punctuation) and Numeracy. NAPLAN 2023 assessments will be online with the exception or year 3 writing which is paper based.

These literacy and numeracy tests form a key part of the National Assessment Program endorsed by all Australian Ministers for Education.

Parent reports on student progress (issued in August and distributed to parents through Office of the Education Registrar) will provide information on your child’s/children’s performance in the areas tested.

Sample parent reports, NAPLAN test papers and other information are available from www.nap.edu.au

A NAPLAN Online information session will be held in March 2023 and practice tests for students to be held on Tuesday 22/3/2023. The NAPLAN Online test session will commence on Monday 27/3/2023, concluding on Thursday 30/3/2023.  The year 3 writing test will be on Monday 27/3/2023.

If you would like your child/ren to participate, please complete the online registration form as soon as possible, but no later than Wednesday, 18 January 2023. If you have multiple children to register please complete a new online form per child. 

If you encounter any problems completing the online registration form please contact    Jacinta Pennicott at the OER on 61656450 or via email at jacinta.pennicott@oer.tas.gov.au

We are unable to facilitate late registrations, so you must register your children to participate by the date above.

Please note that NAPLAN testing in 2023 is being conducted on-line only and there are no paper-based tests.

Educational Performance and Review is the Tasmanian Test Administration Authority for the NAPLAN. For further information, please contact Maree Kennedy at Educational Performance and Review on 6165 5914 or by email naplan@decyp.tas.gov.au