School and NAPLAN assessment characteristics of young people hospitalised after a burn and their matched comparison by grade
| Characteristics | Grade 3* | Grade 5† | Grade 7‡ | Grade 9§ | ||||||||||||
| Burn case (n=2148) | Comparison (n=2148) | Burn case (n=1661) | Comparison (n=1661) | Burn case (n=1077) | Comparison (n=1077) | Burn case (n=476) | Comparison (n=476) | |||||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| School sector | ||||||||||||||||
| Government | 1541 | 71.7 | 1469 | 68.4 | 1210 | 72.9 | 1131 | 68.1 | 689 | 64.0 | 631 | 58.6 | 303 | 63.7 | 286 | 60.1 |
| Catholic | 386 | 18.0 | 455 | 21.2 | 280 | 16.9 | 346 | 20.8 | 235 | 21.8 | 280 | 26.0 | 107 | 22.5 | 120 | 25.2 |
| Independent | 221 | 10.3 | 223 | 10.4 | 171 | 10.3 | 184 | 11.1 | 153 | 14.2 | 166 | 15.4 | 66 | 13.9 | 70 | 14.7 |
| Home | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Remoteness area of school | ||||||||||||||||
| Major city | 1489 | 69.3 | 1478 | 68.8 | 1133 | 68.2 | 1111 | 66.9 | 755 | 70.1 | 753 | 69.9 | 333 | 70.0 | 333 | 70.0 |
| Inner regional | 460 | 21.4 | 477 | 22.2 | 354 | 21.3 | 400 | 24.1 | 246 | 22.8 | 261 | 24.2 | 112 | 23.5 | 114 | 24.0 |
| Outer regional/remote | 199 | 9.3 | 192 | 8.9 | 174 | 10.5 | 150 | 9.0 | 76 | 7.1 | 63 | 5.9 | 31 | 6.5 | 29 | 6.1 |
| Not known | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| NAPLAN assessment | ||||||||||||||||
| Numeracy (below NMS) | 163 | 7.6 | 100 | 4.7 | 146 | 8.8 | 89 | 5.4 | 79 | 7.3 | 34 | 3.2 | 27 | 5.7 | 8 | 1.7 |
| Reading (below NMS) | 187 | 8.7 | 113 | 5.3 | 176 | 10.6 | 116 | 7.0 | 91 | 8.5 | 68 | 6.3 | 58 | 12.2 | 32 | 6.7 |
*Grade 3 χ2tests: School sector p<0.05; remoteness area of school p=0.8; all NAPLAN assessments p<0.0001.
†Grade 5 χ2 tests: School sector p<0.01; remoteness area of school p=0.1; all NAPLAN assessments p<0.001.
‡Grade 7 χ2 tests: School sector p<0.05; remoteness area of school p=0.4; NAPLAN numeracy p<0.0001; NAPLAN reading p=0.1.
§Grade 9 χ2 tests: School sector p=0.5; remoteness area of school p=1.0; all NAPLAN assessments p<0.01.
NAPLAN, National Assessment Plan for Literacy and Numeracy; NMS, national minimum standard.