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NAPLAN data is not comparable across school years

  • Written by: Kevin Watson, Associate Professor of Science Education and Director of Research, University of Notre Dame
imageResearch shows that the test error is too high in NAPLAN.from www.shutterstock.com

Recent political comment suggests Australia has not performed as well as expected in the latest round of NAPLAN testing. Such comment is based on the belief that NAPLAN scores can be compared from one year to the next.

But new research, to be published next month in...

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Higher, faster, stronger: Olympic athletics by numbers

  • Written by: Reema Rattan, Series + Specials Editor, The Conversation
imageThe 100m final in Rio will be won in a time that would have seemed impossible to the athletes competing in Athens in 1896.

The modern Olympic Games were first held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. They’ve been held every four years since – except in 1916, 1940 and 1944 due to the two world wars.

The numbers of events, countries and competing...

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Cutting to numb the pain of sex abuse: interviews with young women in drug treatment

  • Written by: Kathryn Daley, Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, RMIT University
imageThe women were not supported through traumatic events.from shutterstock.com

Women comprise a surprising proportion of people in youth alcohol and drug treatment services in Australia. In Victoria, for instance, one-third of clients are women.

Women in treatment have higher rates of vulnerability – such as homelessness and family disconnection...

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Friday essay: reflections on the idea of a common humanity

  • Written by: Raimond Gaita, Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Arts and the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
imageAboriginal elder Max Eulo holds a baby in front of a sea of 70,000 multi-coloured paper hands at the Sydney Opera House in December 2000.David Gray/Reuters

It is striking how often people now speak of “a common humanity” in ethically inflected registers, or ethically resonant tones that express a fellowship of all the peoples of the...

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  1. How temporary migration is changing Australia – and the world
  2. Root of census failures say badly done IBM and ABS. Still down for some.
  3. Grattan on Friday: There's seldom been a harder time to get things done
  4. Ausgrid: electricity decision fails to shock
  5. Changing state-owned enterprises provide less cause for Chinese investment fears
  6. Going for... green? Why Rio's swimming pools are changing colour
  7. Stopping land clearing and replanting trees could help keep Australia cool in a warmer future
  8. Morrison blocks Chinese bids for NSW power grid
  9. A solution to antibiotic resistance may have been under our noses all along
  10. Why Australian women over 55 aren't exactly enjoying the time of their lives
  11. Angry Turnbull flags heads will roll over census disaster
  12. Explainer: what makes a winning swimmer?
  13. Companions of Earth: minimoons, quasi-satellites and horseshoes
  14. All hail the bookshop: survivor against the odds
  15. Will Chinese investment sacrifice Ukraine's dreams of democracy to economic needs?
  16. The Galileo gambit and other stories: the three main tactics of climate denial
  17. Hunting, fishing and farming remain the biggest threats to wildlife
  18. The curious incentives and consequences of negative gearing
  19. Science or snake oil? Do the enduring Hydroxycut weight-loss products work?
  20. Homosexuality and the Olympic movement: towards better Games
  21. Incest: why is 'worst of the worst' abuse so often ignored?
  22. Meme wars: Lush, Hillary Clinton and graffiti on Instagram
  23. Nine years after the Pasha Bulker storm, we're finally getting a handle on East Coast Lows
  24. Reserve Bank governor calls for hard talk about budget repair
  25. Did the Census really suffer a denial-of-service 'attack'?
  26. Nauru abuse reports warrant urgent action to protect children in offshore detention
  27. Putting audiences, as well as actors, in the hot seat
  28. People have lost faith in privatisation and it's easy to see why
  29. Turnbull to Australians: your census data is safe despite attack
  30. With a vote delayed, where does this leave constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians?
  31. Weekly Dose: triptans, drugs that relieve migraine but only if taken at the right time
  32. Drowning by averages: did the ABS miscalculate the Census load?
  33. Explainer: what is age-related macular degeneration?
  34. Andrew Bolt and ACMA: should 'hyperbole' get in the way of accuracy?
  35. Census website cracks after 'malicious' attack by hackers
  36. Change Agents: Rhonda Galbally and Bruce Bonyhady on the birth of the NDIS
  37. Natural selection may be the answer to the cancer riddle, but can we beat evolution?
  38. Are the Rio 2016 Games a true measure of Australia's Winning Edge?
  39. More than fun: capitalising sport’s social goods
  40. Business Briefing: the big bucks of broadcasting the Olympics
  41. Rigs to reefs: is it better to leave disused oil platforms where they stand?
  42. Words stripped of meaning: a guide to linguistic spam
  43. ABS's night of disaster as servers crash and millions fail to complete the census
  44. The battle over the census is likely to continue well beyond census night
  45. Medicines to treat side effects of other medicines? Sometimes less is more beneficial
  46. Being 'job ready' is not the purpose of university science degrees
  47. Here's what Australia can do to help end the Chinese organ trade
  48. Dolly the Sheep and the human cloning debate - twenty years later
  49. What Australia needs to do to protect consumers from untested stem-cell treatments
  50. #CensusFail: the ABS hasn't convinced the public their privacy is protected

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