ONE in ten student teachers failed the literacy and numeracy test, so we wondered how everyone else would go. We asked four normal South Australians to take part of the test — here’s what happened.

Of the 4000 university teaching students to sit the national literacy and numeracy test since January this year, more than 260 students have failed either the numeracy or literacy exams or both.

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The 2017 results of the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies finds that America’s adult workforce is no more skillful in reading, math, or digital problem-solving than it was ...

Principals from low-income schools have called for an end to NCEA literacy and numeracy tests. Some school principals want to end new NCEA literacy and numeracy tests, citing unfairness for low-income ...

On the heels of a troubling “report card ” on reading and math skills among American students, a global test of adult skills suggests older generations may echo those problems. The 2017 results of the ...