Grattan Institute: Making NAPLAN work for students

Grattan Institute today urged the Federal Government to boost its national school performance plan with a new element which would help meet teacher concerns about unfair league tables.

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“We need a stronger focus on individual student progress in literacy and numeracy within schools rather than measuring in a way which encourages unfair comparisons between schools,” Dr Ben Jensen said on the release of Grattan Institute’s “Measuring what Matters: Student Progress.”

This “value-added” model provides much more accurate and useful measures and removes the bias in the current model against schools serving lower socio-economic areas. For these reasons, they have been supported by teachers, school associations, and unions in other countries, according to the Institute’s Program Director of School Education, Dr Ben Jensen.

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