Privacy

ACARA and state and territory test administration authorities (TAAs) collect personal information from schools and students to enable NAPLAN testing to be undertaken and for the results of tests to be reported at student, school, state/territory and national levels. 

ACARA and state and territory TAAs have obligations to protect the personal information of students and school staff and take these obligations very seriously. For most NAPLAN tests, ACARA only collects student data once student names have been removed. The names of students using braille format tests are collected in order to produce and administer the tests. ACARA treats all student-level data as if these were personal information and protects the data it collects in line with the standards in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

• NAPLAN student privacy notice (137 KB)
• NAPLAN student privacy notice braille test books (139 KB)
• NAPLAN school staff privacy notice (129 KB)

ACARA is also responsible for the overall management of item trial studies, NAP sample assessments field trials and main studies, NAP Opt-in assessments and other research studies. See: 

• ACARA Item Trial privacy notice (PDF 118 KB)
• NAP sample assessments privacy notices on the Science Literacy, Civics and Citizenship and ICT Literacy pages
• NAP Opt-in assessments page. 

See ACARA’s privacy policy.