Assessment equity for remote multilingual Australian Aboriginal students through the lens of Sustainable Development Goals

Figures & data

Figure 1. Foundations of Early Literacy Assessment - Northern Territory raw scores by category of remoteness and language background.

Table I. Mean Foundations of Early Literacy Assessment - Northern Territory scores by student language background.

Language background	n	M	SD	Skew	Kurtosis
Standard Australian English (SAE) Speakers	21	135.10	10.38	−0.82	−0.77
English as an Additional Dialect (EAD) Learners	27	104.01	34.31	−0.83	−0.34
English as an Additional Language (EAL) Learners	24	88.58	38.37	−0.50	−0.80
Total	72	108	35.89	−1.04	0.09

Table II. Mean difference between the Foundations of Early Literacy Assessment - Northern Territory scores by students speaking SAE with students from EAD and EAL backgrounds.

Language background	Mean difference	p-Value
SAE vs EAD	30.91	p < 0.001
SAE vs EAL	46.51	p < 0.001

Note. SAE: Standard Australian English Speakers; EAD English as an Additional Dialect Learners; EAL: English as an Additional Language Learners.