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

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Exley, Beryl
Trimble-Roles, Rebecca
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2016
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We examine the challenges of pronouns and noun groups in the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority's (ACARA) National Assessment Program—Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) Numeracy Year 3 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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Australasian Journal of Early Childhood

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41

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1

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© 2016 Early Childhood Australia Inc. This is the author-manuscript version of the paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.

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English and literacy curriculum and pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL)

Mathematics and numeracy curriculum and pedagogy

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Education & Educational Research

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Exley, B; Trimble-Roles, R, Written numeracy assessment in the early years: The challenges of pronouns and noun groups, Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2016, 41 (1), pp. 100-105

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