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QUEENSLAND students are expected to do better on NAPLAN tests this year following the rollout of the national curriculum.
It's just 2½ weeks until Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 students sit the controversial literacy and numeracy tests.
About 236,500 Queensland students are expected to sit this year's exams, which will test reading, writing, spelling, punctuation and grammar and numeracy skills over three days from May 14 to May 16.
Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority Queensland board member Lesley Englert said average NAPLAN scores for Queensland students should rise given the introduction of the national curriculum, which was more demanding and consistent than the former state one.
Department of Education, Training and Employment (DETE) deputy director-general Lyn McKenzie has said teachers had reported students having higher levels of skill and knowledge when they started this year than previously in some subject areas as a result of the new curriculum.
Ms Englert said the Australian Curriculum was much more explicit and students should perform better overall in mean scores on NAPLAN as a result.
"Previously we had a curriculum that wasn't necessarily consistent across all year levels, across grades, across schools because there was too much optional focus on what the teacher wanted to teach," Ms Englert said.
"It is no longer up to the teachers what to teach, the teacher's job is now how to teach it better.
"It will definitely lift standards, comparatively it depends on how other states are doing too (on NAPLAN)."
DETE refused to answer questions about whether they expected the Australian Curriculum to impact on this year's NAPLAN results.
Instead, DETE assistant director-general Mark Campling said Queensland had shown one of the highest levels of significant improvements on the tests since 2008 and they expected this to continue.
Queensland Teachers' Union president Kevin Bates said "one would like to think that we have got a set of circumstances that will lead to better results" in Queensland.
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