{"id":710017,"date":"2026-06-02T08:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/710017\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T08:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:46:10","slug":"why-naplan-writing-test-must-not-be-axed-in-favour-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/710017\/","title":{"rendered":"Why NAPLAN writing test must not be axed in favour of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to our children, it is hard to think of anything more depressing than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/topic\/artificial-intelligence-5ui\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> smothering the development of their literacy.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s effectively what the Australian Government Primary Principals Association (AGPPA) called for last week. They proposed gutting the National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) by eliminating the writing test and shifting the focus of evaluation from biological thinking to the use of AI tools to revise pieces of writing or fact-check sources on their behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it comes to our children, it is hard to think of anything more depressing than artificial intelligence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-710017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}