Up to the test: schools check technology readiness for NAPLAN Online

Tanya Marschke
Updated July 23 2017 - 11:57am, first published July 21 2017 - 3:00pm
PENS DOWN: Orange Public School students Lara Campbell and Charlotte Jackson could complete their future NAPLAN tests using computers. Photo: JUDE KEOGH
PENS DOWN: Orange Public School students Lara Campbell and Charlotte Jackson could complete their future NAPLAN tests using computers. Photo: JUDE KEOGH

Cramped fingers, ink smudges and crinkled paper will be a thing of the past when nationally-run literacy and numeracy testing goes online.

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Tanya Marschke

Tanya Marschke

Journalist

I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.

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