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Key recommendations of the report include: • A test to assess the literacy and numeracy skills of all teaching graduates; • A requirement for universities to demonstrate that their graduates are classroom ready before gaining full course accreditation; • An overhaul of the in class practical element of teaching degrees; • A specialisation for primary school teachers with a focus on STEM and languages; and, • Universities publish all information about how they select students into teacher education programs.

A major study of 415,000 school students conducted over five years to 2012, «Student Attendance and Educational Outcomes: Every Day Counts», has linked increasing rates of absenteeism with declining scores in national literacy and numeracy tests.

ACARA chief executive Rob Randall said there were no problems with the test results for NAPLAN (National Assessment Program — Literacy And Numeracy) and the national results will be released next week as planned.

«Even small amounts of unauthorised absence from school were associated with substantial falls in average Naplan (National Assessment Program — Literacy and Numeracy) test scores.

Fewer of these most - educated Americans perform at the highest levels on tests of numeracy and problem solving with technology.

• Replace skills tests with on - course assessments of literacy and numeracy skills.

Principals, themselves being pressured from above, are concerned with raising their performance in high - stakes National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) testing.

Students consistently achieve outstanding results, performing well in literacy and numeracy tests when compared with national average levels and other statistically similar schools.

Speaking at the Policy Exchange, Morgan reaffirmed the government's commitment to ensuring all pupils leave school with the proper literacy and numeracy skills, announcing plans for more rigorous testing for seven year - olds and compulsory re-sits for those that fail to meet standards.

Under the new minimum standards, students are required to achieve a band 8 or above in reading, writing and numeracy to receive their HSC, with the Year 9 NAPLAN tests the first of several opportunities to meet the standard

... In Australia, one could argue that the imperative for instructional leadership only (re) gained momentum in the context of the National Assessment Program — Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests introduced in 2008, and with the establishment of the My School website in 2010 (which lists NAPLAN results for every school in Australia along with other information).

In August 2014 ACARA began the third phase of its research program with the aim to further refine the measurement aspects of the tailored test design for reading and numeracy tests.

Steps along the way have included: The problem with levels - gaps in basic numeracy skills identified by rigorous diagnostic testing, Forgetting is necessary for learning, desirable difficulties and the need to dissociate learning and performance, Going SOLO on the journey towards deep learning, How do we make John Hattie's «Visible Learning» work in maths?

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We also have a separate testing regime that goes along, not very happily, with a narrow focus upon literacy and numeracy running from primary to secondary.

«Early years policy must always, without exception, have the needs of the child at its centre - but with baseline tests, this is simply not the case,» said Mr Leitch, who warned that he remained «extremely concerned that the proposed tests focus so heavily on the narrow skills of language, literacy and numeracy».

And improving literacy has always been on our agenda: we worked with all schools and teachers across Wales to embed the Literacy and Numeracy Framework into curriculum planning and teaching and learning and from 2013 to 2016 we delivered Closing the Gap: test and learn, a Department for Education programme that put interventions to improve literacy in primary and secondary schools to the test.

Trainees also now need to pass literacy and numeracy tests before they are offered a place on a training programme, instead of at the end of the course, filtering out those with weaker skills.

Luke says: «I think the application process I went through with Tesco was standard for any retailer: there was an application form, telephone interview, literacy and numeracy tests and an assessment centre.

Arts degrees are as welcome as numerate degrees (degrees with a high concentration of maths), as long as you can demonstrate to recruiters that numbers don't scare you (numeracy tests are often part of the application process).