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My research was conducted to consider teacher attitudes towards the Implementation of National Testing of Students in Literacy and Numeracy in years 3, 5, 7 and 9. The research was qualitative in nature and involved interviewing classroom teachers in the field post during the first and second administration of national testing. One of the objectives of the research was to see if there was a nexus between teacher attitudes and students’ performance scores. The research found that students’ scores were correlated with teacher attitudes. There was a greater link between students’ prior achievements, school economic resources and students’ socio-economic backgrounds, with the final of these having the most sizeable impact on student performance. I anticipate that the research team will re-conduct this work again during the next testing cycle to confirm these findings.