Australia’s NAPLAN agency says parents will receive a “caveat” following recent exam chaos, but students’ results will not be changed. The head of the agency that oversees NAPLAN indicates that while the issues experienced during the testing period affect how results should be interpreted, they do not lead to adjustments to marks.
Across reports from multiple outlets, the same message is conveyed: parents and families will be informed that there may be limitations in the reliability or comparability of results due to the disruption. However, the agency draws a clear line between providing contextual caveats and altering the scores themselves.
The coverage focuses on the response to the disrupted testing process and on the decision that no re-marking or recalculation will be undertaken. The “caveat” is presented as additional information provided to parents, rather than a correction to academic performance data. The reports do not specify the content or format of the caveat beyond indicating it will be communicated to families.
