Written numeracy assessment in the early years: The challenges of pronouns and noun groups


Autoria(s): Exley, Beryl; Trimble-Roles, Rebecca
Data(s)

01/03/2016

Resumo

We examine the challenges of pronouns and noun groups in the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority’s (ACARA) Year 3 National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) Numeracy Example Test (ACARA, 2015a). Framed by discourses of Literacy as a General Capability (ACARA, 2015b) in the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics (ACARA, 2015c), the pronouns and noun groups used in the Example Test are mapped onto the Australian Curriculum: English Content Descriptions (ACARA, 2015d). The findings are that some of the pronouns and noun groups used in the Example Test are more complex than what Year 3 children are expected to achieve in the Australian Curriculum: English. We thus stress the need for early years teachers of mathematics to account for the unique mathematical register of written mathematics problems so that young children are not only prepared for high-stakes written numeracy assessments, but are also enabled as a numerically literate citizen.

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application/pdf

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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/91551/

Publicador

Early Childhood Australia

Relação

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/91551/1/Written%20Numeracy%20Assessment%20in%20the%20Early%20Years%20AJEC%20FINAL%20AUTHOR%20COPY%20February%202015.pdf

http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/our-publications/australasian-journal-early-childhood/index-abstracts/ajec-vol-40-no-1-february-2015/

Exley, Beryl & Trimble-Roles, Rebecca (2016) Written numeracy assessment in the early years: The challenges of pronouns and noun groups. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 41(1). (In Press)

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Copyright 2016 Early Childhood Australia

Fonte

Children & Youth Research Centre; Faculty of Education; School of Early Childhood

Palavras-Chave #130204 English and Literacy Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. LOTE ESL and TESOL) #130208 Mathematics and Numeracy Curriculum and Pedagogy #linguistic #literacy #numeracy #assessment #early years #noun #pronoun #curriculum literacies
Tipo

Journal Article