My School is a website administered by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) which provides access to information about Australian schools. The site reports data from the annual National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests which compulsorily assess Reading, Writing, Spelling, Grammar & Punctuation, and Numeracy at years 3, 5, 7 and 9 for all Australian school students. Teachers' unions and some parent bodies have expressed concerns that the data is being used to formulate 'league tables' of schools. Principals claim that students have been asked to leave some schools because their performance on NAPLAN tests was expected to damage those schools' rankings.[1] Independent think tank the Grattan Institute calls for schools to be judged on the individual improvement students make every year rather than the comparison based on raw test scores used on My School.[2] The Australian Education Union has resolved to boycott[3] future NAPLAN testing if the My School website is used in this way.
