ABSTRACT
This chapter examines depictions of National Assessment Plan Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) in Australian print media, contrasting representations from both 2010 and 2013. Taking a selection of articles by six key journalists/commentators over the course of each of these two years, it maps the dominant frames in use around NAPLAN over this period. Differences in the resonance of the various articulations in authors work were also detected between 2010 and 2013, and will be discussed subsequently. The analysis presented in this chapter highlights that reporting on NAPLAN in the print media can be seen to be dominated by the engagement of the problem frame, contextualised within changing debates over the two years. The various articulations of the problem frame, as highlighted in this chapter, employ multiple and shifting versions of the enemy, and correspondingly, multiple and shifting conceptualisations of the directions in which possible catastrophe and possible solutions lie.
