My School is updated each year with information about every school in Australia to help parents understand “the performance of schools over time”.
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NAPLAN scores are used to gauge the quality of schools. But the overemphasis on only literacy and numeracy scores stands in the way of providing a more holistic education.
The current debate about comparability would be more concerning if 2018 results showed radically different trends compared to previous years, but they don’t.
Expecting the My School website to improve learning outcomes assumes that parents will see a drop in results and move their child to the other school down the road - but markets in education just don’t work like this.
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Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
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Associate Professor of Education Policy and the Future of Schooling, The University of Melbourne
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School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Research DECRA Fellow, Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Monash University
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School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
