 Hello and welcome to the fifth edition of my video log, Fanning the Flames of Wonder. In the past few videos I've gone through each of the letters in our name, Akara, to explain how we work and how we strive to inspire improvement in the learning of all young Australians. The fourth letter in our name is R for reporting and this refers to our role in collecting, managing, analysing, evaluating and reporting statistical and related information about educational outcomes. Most people know us for our MySchool website which shows information about more than 9,500 schools around Australia. But we also report on other aspects of education that I'd like to share with you. We publish the annual national report on schooling in Australia which shows progress towards the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians. The national report on schooling shows national information such as student participation, achievement and attainment, as well as statistics on school and staff numbers, student enrollments and school funding. A couple of times a year the national report on schooling data portal which provides interactive access to a wide range of data on schooling in Australia is updated. It allows users to view and download data at the state, territory and national level by school sector, calendar year and by other breakdowns such as gender and Indigenous status. This information is particularly useful for academics, researchers and policy makers to identify trends across gender status, Indigenous and non-Indigenous students, students with language backgrounds other than English, student attendance rates, students with disability and school, student and staff numbers. We also report on results from NAPLAN and the National Assessment Programme sample assessments. We provide preliminary NAPLAN results around August or September each year before releasing the final national report towards the end of the year. Our National Assessment Programme sample assessments provide a national comparison of student performance in three areas, science literacy, civics and citizenship and information and communication technology literacy. These reports look at the performance of states and territories as well as various subgroups such as Indigenous students, those living in remote and very remote areas and students from language backgrounds other than English. These reports also contain the results of surveys conducted alongside the assessments that give valuable information on students' perceptions of these three key areas of learning. The My School website is updated in March each year and in 2020 it will look a bit different from previous years. For one thing, the number of NAPLAN displays on My School will be reduced and the focus of NAPLAN displays will be more on student gain rather than statistically similar school comparisons. Also, we will reduce the misuse of NAPLAN data and provide clear guidance to schools and public and students about the purpose and proper uses of NAPLAN and My School. The data we collect, analyse and report on across all facets of education help teachers, principals, school systems, education departments, researchers, academics and others in a variety of ways to support development of classroom materials and lesson plans, to identify gaps and inequities across student groups and to ensure school funding is directed where it is needed most so that we can all collectively continue to fan the flames of wonder in all our students around the country. Thanks for watching.