Options for the assessment and reporting of primary students in the key learning area of science to be used for the reporting of nationally comparable outcomes of schooling within the context of the National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-First Century

The National Education Performance Monitoring Taskforce (NEPMT) was established in April 1999 by the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA). The taskforce was called upon inter alia to develop performance measures as the basis for national reporting. One such area was science.