Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee (part 2 of 2)
4 June 2026
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Senate Education and Employment Committee Australian Parliament
00:01 - 00:23
Speaker 7
During COVID as well, and then we've changed the scale in 2023. So there's a... There is a significant body of information about the writing results. I know Arrow have used that to do some of their really important research, as well. And so without that, we wouldn't have the clear indication about the national performance in regard to writing.
00:23 - 00:26
Speaker 11
Yeah. So there'd be a loss of oversight effectively.
00:27 - 00:42
Speaker 7
Yeah. Well, there would be. And if it was removed from the national assessment program, absolutely. Yeah. That's...
I think, as you say, the the value of the national assessment program, interest in numeracy, is that it's a census program.
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