Achievement gaps in Australia
What Naplan reveals about education inequality in Australia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12584635 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margot Ford (University of Newcastle Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 80-102 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Race Ethnicity and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1361-3324 • E-ISSN: 1470-109X |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13613324.2011.645570 |
| OpenAlex | W1985326216 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
| References cited | 20 |
Drawing on approaches used by Gillborn (2008 Gillborn, D. 2008. Racism and education. Coincidence or conspiracy?, Abingdon: Routledge. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]), this article examines results from the most recent version of Australian national testing (NAPLAN) in Years 3, 5 and 9, operating since 2008. It analyses the inequality of achievement between indigenous and non-indigenous students in the States and Territories, with particular reference to New South Wales (NSW) and the Northern Territory (NT). It frames an analysis by using the concept of locked-in inequality, one element within Critical Race Theory (CRT) in education. Whilst there is an achievement gap between indigenous and non-indigenous students in all States, in the NT it is a staggering fifty percentage points or more in reading, writing and numeracy across all Year levels currently tested. This article argues that there has not been any significant change to indigenous education outcomes in comparison with their non-indigenous cohorts, since the introduction of government funded education in the NT. Locked-in inequality has been deep and long-lasting in the NT and unless significant changes take place, this is set to continue
Critical race theory · Economic growth · Educational inequality · Government (linguistics · Indigenous · Indigenous Education · Inequality · Literacy · Numeracy · Pedagogy · Political science · Racism · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Education Systems and Policy · Gender Studies · Indigenous and Place-Based Education
Higher Education, Pedagogy and Social Justice
Changing the acculturation conversation
Remote Indigenous education and translanguaging
Qualitative insights into a scholarship scheme designed to optimise test scores and expedite SDG-4 actualisation in Nigeria
Critical encounters
The power of the norm
“It makes you nervous when you start talking about racism”
Education, Racial Justice, and the Limits of Inclusion in Settler Colonial Australia
Investigating the use of the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (Naplan) test results
The impact of national standardized literacy and numeracy testing on children and teaching staff in remote Australian Indigenous communities
At the Heart of Learning (Series
Language Background Other Than English’
School (non-)attendance and ‘mobile cultures’
Language diversity and attainment in schools
Disadvantaged families’ experiences of home-school partnerships
Year 3 boys’ and girls’ enjoyment for reading across economic demographics in Australia. Implications for boys and students from lower SES communities
Colonial dominance and Indigenous resistance in Australian national education declarations
Are Australian Universities Perpetuating the Teaching of Racism in Their Undergraduate Nurses in Discrete Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Courses? A Critical Race Document Analysis Protocol
The impact of hearing impairment on early academic achievement in Aboriginal children living in remote Australia
Naplan discourses
An ethnic advantage
Carceral logics and education
Social justice and race critical education research
Towards a critical transformative approach to inclusive intercultural education
Playing the game of school mathematics
The one-in-ten
Towards social justice in education
Large-scale assessments of students’ learning and education policy
Potential of ‘stacking’ early childhood interventions to reduce inequities in learning outcomes
Restorative practices for preventing/countering violent extremism
Influence of culture on visual working memory
Mapping schools' Naplan results
Positioning Indigenous knowledge systems within the Australian mathematics curriculum
Reading Between the Lines
Learning Versus Education
Are We Making Education Count in Remote Australian Communities or Just Counting Education
Red Dirt Thinking on Educational Disadvantage
Racism and Education
Brown v. Board of Education and the Interest-Convergence Dilemma
Critical Race Theory
Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education
White Nation
Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth
Indigenous well-being in four countries
Structure, (governance) and health
The evolving role of critical race theory in educational scholarship
The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education
The Color of Supremacy
Racism and Education
Achievement Motivation and Indigenous Minorities
Critical race theory
Just what is critical race theory and what's it doing in a nice field like education
Indigenous Education, Mainstream Education, and Native Studies
Both-Ways
The Cultural Interface of Islander and Scientific Knowledge
| Unique citing works | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,85 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |