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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 11 Hansard (6 November) . . Page.. 3857 ..

APPENDIX 2: Incorporated in Hansard on 5 November 1997 at page 3648

MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION TAKEN ON NOTICE 25 SEPTEMBER 1997

Literacy Assessment

MR MOORE - asked the Minister for Education and Training:

On 8 May 1997 you stated, in answer to my Question on Notice No. 411, that the data I requested on the results of the Learning Assistance Assessments in Government primary and high schools for 1995 and 1996 would be made available once the results of the new ACT Literacy Assessment Program were made available. These latter results were published a month ago. I now ask you to fulfil your commitment to release the Learning Assistance Assessment and provide answers to parts (2), (3), and (4) of my Question on Notice 411 following.

(2) What was the total number of students at each Year level (1-9) identified by the assessments as requiring learning assistance in (a) literacy; and (b) numeracy.

(3) What was the lowest and highest level of identified need for any school in each Year level in literacy and in numeracy as percentages of the total number of students in each Year level.

(4) For each Year level, what was the number of primary and high schools with identified needs within the following ranges for literacy and for numeracy less than 10%, 10-19%, 20-29%, 30-39% and 40% or over.

MR STEFANIAK - the answer to Mr Moore's question is:

(2) Students were assessed in Years 1, 2, 4, 6 & 8, by class and Learning Assistance teachers, and the results were forwarded to the central office of the Department. The number of students at each of these year levels identified by the assessment as requiring learning assistance in (a) literacy; and (b) numeracy are as follows.

Year Literacy Numeracy
Level

1995 1996 1995 1996

Year 1 1017 1077 N/A

Year 2 1105 1116 626 476

Year 4 803 699 681 502

Year 6 583 658 564 539

Year 8 768 798 633 633

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