Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted The Impacts of the NAPLAN Test System on the Mental Health and Well-being of Educators and Teaching Strategies in Australia(Saudi Digital Library, 2025) Alghamdi, Sahar Abdullah; Lucas, Carey; Terry, CummingThe National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy is Australia’s standard procedure to measure the performance of students in literacy and numeracy. Although this procedure was intended to identify weak areas and address them by allocating more resources and implementing appropriate strategies, it has been criticised in research due to its potential to dictate teaching strategies, curriculum development, and its overall impact on the mental health and well-being of students. This study aimed to investigate its implications on the mental health and well-being of teachers as well as the teaching strategies. Furthermore, it also aimed to study how teachers integrate student-centred, holistic and individually-tailored teaching strategies. A scoping review was implemented in this study to identify and extract the findings of the existing articles on this topic. Online research databases such as EBSCO Educational Research Database, ProQuest and Web of Science were searched using Keywords and Boolean Operators. A total of 11 articles were included in this scoping review. The extracted data indicate that NAPLAN impacts the well-being of teachers through excessive mental pressure and work responsibilities. It also influences teaching strategies, curriculum development and the learning quality of students. Although teachers try to implement student-centred and holistic teaching strategies. Based on this scoping review, a literature gap is identified regarding how teachers ensure holistic learning for students, which can be addressed through further primary studies.7 0