A 2013 senate committee looked at a range
of adverse consequences emerging from the NAPLAN, including narrowing the curriculum, and the development of a NAPLAN preparation industry — creating the perception NAPLAN is a «high stakes» test.
«Every technology ever developed... has had some sort
of adverse consequences, and sometimes they've been serious, sometimes not... It's unprecedented and would defy common sense if there weren't some problem somewhere,» said J. Clarence Davies, a senior adviser to the Project on
Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN), who takes a more pessimistic approach to nanotechnology's potential.