Measuring What Matters: Student Progress - A Grattan Report
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Op Ed published in The Australian 27 Jan 2010
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Recent Grattan seminar on the report
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In Australia, a large percentage of students only reach minimum standards of literacy and numeracy. These students are spread throughout Australia’s school education systems; there are few schools that do not have poor performing students who would benefit from improved education. Despite decades of increasing expenditure, student performance has stagnated (Thomson & De Bortoli 2008). We have a moral imperative to improve the performance of the 30% of year 9 students who have progressed to only the very basic elements of writing literacy.
Accurate measures of school performance are vital to improvement. The measures need to focus on student progress so that schools and teachers can focus on improving all students – particularly those most in need.
The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) assesses students’ literacy and numeracy skills and is an important advance in addressing poor performance. The Federal Government’s ‘My School’ website publishes school performance scores for each school as the average of their students’ NAPLAN results, comparing them to the results of ‘like’ schools (based on proxies of students’ socio-economic background).
Continue Reading the Exec Summary
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