Using National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) data in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC)
Technical paper no. 8
This paper by Galina Daraganova, Ben Edwards and Mark Sipthorp describes how consent was obtained from parents, matching and linkage processes, sampling and bias issues, how NAPLAN data are stored in the LSAC data file, representativeness of data, and the extent to which NAPLAN data are correlated with the main cognitive and learning measures used in LSAC.